On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:39:40 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: > I have no idea if it will work, [...] Well, you're right so far... > <?php > > function clean_string($input) { > > /** > * Character to escape... > * \x0 \n \r \ ' " \x1a > **/ > > $patterns = array( "\x0", "\n", "\r", "\\", "'", "\"", "\x1a"); > $replace = array( '\\\x0', '\n', '\r', '\\\\', '\\\'', '\\"', '\\\x1a'); > return str_replace($patterns, $replace, $input); > } Not only does this not do quite what mysql_escape_string() does, but it also fails to not do so spectacularly. Hint: echo str_replace (array('a','b'), array('b','c'), 'a'), "\n"; /Nisse -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php