Thank you very much for the reply. That was what I needed to know. That this is the Normal behavior and will not vary in different configurations (exept of the magic_quotes_XXX settings that I'm aware of) Milen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Firan Corneliu" <capi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Petzo" <petzo@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: Re: addslashes + stripslashes + mysql question > You have the string " ' \ " > With addslashes it becomes " '\ \\ " > > When you insert it into the database > it goes into a query like this > > "update table set field=' '\ \\ ' " > > But that inserts into the field only " ' \ ", > in other words the original string. > > It is a normal behaviour and you should > omit the stripslashes function. > > Hope it helps > Firan Corneliu > > On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 11:20 +0300, Petzo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My question is about the norlmal behaviour of PHP and MYSQL but I cant > > explain it without a simple example. Thank you for reading: > > > > I have the following code: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > <?php > > print $t = $_POST['txt']; > > print $t = addslashes($t); > > > > @ $db = mysql_pconnect(xxx,xxx,xxx); > > mysql_select_db('test'); > > > > $q = "update ttable set ffield='$t'"; > > mysql_query($q); > > > > $q = "select * from ttable"; > > $result = mysql_query($q); > > $bo = mysql_fetch_array($result); > > > > print $t = $bo['ffield']; > > print $t = stripslashes($t); > > ?> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > from a HTML form I send variable: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ' \ \' \\ \\\ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > after addshashes it becomes: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > \' \\ \\\' \\\\ \\\\\\ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > after that it gets in the database > > > > but after I get it out it becomes: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ' \ \' \\ \\\ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > (without the backslashes!) > > > > and ofcourse after stripslashes it gets messed-up: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ' ' \ \ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > So my question is if this is a normal behaviour for PHP+MYSQL or it may vary > > indifferent conficurations or versions of both php or mysql. > > It's not a bad thing to be like that but I wonder if my code will behave the > > same at most systems. > > > > Thank you very much > > > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php