On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:47:50 +1000, justin.baiocchi@xxxxxxxx <justin.baiocchi@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I made the change but the domain\username now appears in my database as: > domain\\\\username You probably have the magic quotes enabled. The manual page( http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php ) says something about it. It even provides a sample code for automatically handling the magic quotes setting (see the last code block). Do try the examples first, character escaping IS A confusing issue. ---- ramil -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php