Mike, Pretty sure your solution is to addslashes() around whatever data might contain the apostrophes. HTH, Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Baerwolf [mailto:mike@wkla.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:33 AM > To: php-db@lists.php.net > Subject: Insert/Update help needed > > > Hello all, > > I've been able to get the below to work pretty much. The only > problem I > have is when there is an apostrophe in the data of one of the fields > like (You're the One). When this occurs nothing gets updated or > inserted(tried both). I've done other things from forms > inserting/updating with data that contained apostrophes and > never had a > problem. This is my first attempt at inserting/updating from > a string > match. > Any help would be appreciated. > > $grab = preg_match_all("/(<([\w]+)[^>]*>)(.*)(<\/\\2>)/", > $file, $matches); > > $a_1 = $matches[3][48]; > $a_2 = $matches[3][49]; > $a_3 = $matches[3][50]; > $sql = "UPDATE charts SET artist='$a_1' , song='$a_2' , label='$a_3' > WHERE charts_id=1" or die(mysql_error()); > if ($result = mysql_query($sql)){ > > Here is my table structure: > charts_id(tinyint(3),NOT NULL) > artist(varchar(150),NULL) > song(varchar(100),NULL) > label(varchar(75),NULL) > > Thanks in advance, > Mike > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
