Or run it through base64_encode after json_encode, never have to worry about quotes and things. On Nov 14, 2013, at 4:38 PM, Shawn McKenzie <shawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you are for example saving the entire $_POST array in a text field of > your DB, then just serailize() it or json_encode() it and run it through > the appropriate real_escape_string() function if you're not using prepared > statements or other custom escaping. > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Ramiro Barrantes < > ramiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I would like to record, on a database, the global variables $_POST and >> $_SERVER for each action that the user does that involves a modification of >> the database. I am just saving, say $_POST or $_SERVER (and others), as a >> string and putting it in a field on the database. >> >> However, when I try to get the info out of the database and access it as >> an XML (using the DOMDocument library) it becomes a pain to handle due to >> all the special characters (I think, as I haven't been able to get it to >> work), for example: >> >> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0 >> >> (I seem to need to replace all the "/"s) >> >> It's a pain, and I would like not to have to replace special characters >> with preg_replace if possible. >> >> Any suggestions? I have been having a lot of trouble with this. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Ramiro >> >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php