Re: significance of escape character in string in PHP

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2013/3/18 Ken Robinson <kenrbnsn@xxxxxxxxx>

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> On 18.03.2013 09:10, Norah Jones wrote:
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>> I am having an string which was have few ' (single quote) and few "
>> (double quotes) and was not able to insert into the mysql database. I
>> have replaced them with \' and \" and everything is fine.
>> Though this are fine now but don't understand the working and I could
>> have missed few corner cases also. Please suggest the working and also
>> if there is some better way to achieve this.
>>
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> You should be using either mysql_real_escape_string or
> mysqli_real_escape_string (preferably the later) depending on how you're
> accessing the DB.


You shouldn't use ext/mysql at all!
Use prepared statements with PDO_MYSQL or MySQLi


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