Hello Adam, Thursday, March 4, 2004, 3:30:32 PM, you wrote: AW> Hi, I have an SQL statement that is ran when data is submitted through a AW> form. When someone types in a word with an ' such as farmer's the SQL AW> statement fails. I tried $_POST[data] = AW> addslashes($_POST[data]); before AW> executing the SQL statement, but the statement still fails. any AW> suggestions? using words without a ' works fine. $_POST['data'] = addslashes($_POST['data']); will work - you need the quotes or the array element won't be found. Here is a function that will addslashes to an entire array (in this instance $_POST) if you want: <? function addslash (&$item1, $key) { $item1 = addslashes($item1); } array_walk($_POST, 'addslash'); ?> -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php