Re: Re: escape characters

[Filip de Waard <dewaard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 22, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Jimmy Brock wrote:

> Matt, love your show!
>
> Use the addslahses function to escape ' " \ characters. See
> http://php.net/addslashes for details.

Actually, you shouldn't use addslashes, but a database specific 
function like mysql_escape_string().

http://phundamentals.nyphp.org/PH_storingretrieving.php

Regards,

Filip de Waard

> Jimmy Brock
>
> "Matthew Perry" <mwperry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:405E6BD8.9010502@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I am trying to allow my users to enter quotes in their strings.  For
> > instance instead of writing:    2 inch rod, they can write 2 " rod.  
> > The
> > problem is, of course, that " ends the string and all that is saved is
> > any value before the ".  How do I get around this without using 
> > textarea?
>
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