>> Is it possible to have a "meeting of the minds" to come up with (an) >> appropriate method(s)? > Minds, meet prepared statements :) > PDO is the way to go :D Not to refute the above advice one bit (not to mention oppose the arguments against escaping in general) ... but just curious - can anyone demo a hack that effectively injects past mysqli_real_escape_string(), while using utf-8 ? It may just be a matter of time (or already?) before mysqli_real_escape_string is *proven* ineffective (w/utf-8) ... but here I am just attempting to gather facts. Thanks -Govinda -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php