On July 12, 2009 03:34:49 pm Haig Dedeyan wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:26:36 -0400, Haig Dedeyan wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Haig Dedeyan <hdedeyan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> mysql_query("INSERT INTO phonedir > >>> (fname, lname) VALUES('$new_fname','$new_lname')") > >>> or die(mysql_error()); > > > > I won;t be using 2x escapes but I just need to know if I should be seeing > > the backslash in the dbase. > > No, the backslashes should not be stored in the database. > They are only there to tell the database engine how to > separate data from the SQL syntax. > > > /Nisse Ahhh. Thanks for the info. Cheers Haig