Re: retrieving special characters from MySQL
| From: | Steve Brett | Date: | Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:47:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: retrieving special characters from MySQL | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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pull it out then use stripslashes() as you display it ...
Steve
"Andrew" <ablew@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:20010723124443.37394.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> Hi, I'm having trouble getting special characters out of MySQL using php
> 4.06.
>
> I add a field like "McDonald's" from PHP and in mysql client I can see the
> entry (McDonald's) is put into the database correctly. However the problem
> arises when I query it and it prints out (McDonald\'s). Is there any way
for
> php to pull out the string as it is in the database without putting in the
> escape character ( \ ) ????
>
> thx
>
>