RE: [PHP-DB] addslashes()
| From: | Todd Williamsen | Date: | Thu, 07 Feb 2002 23:57:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] addslashes() | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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Paul,
It is being inserted into a database
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul DuBois [mailto:paul@snake.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 5:41 PM
To: Todd Williamsen; php-db@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] addslashes()
At 16:54 -0600 2/7/02, Todd Williamsen wrote:
>Ok..
>
>i tried it out... and it almost works like I want it... weird though
>
>1. when I put in <p><font color="blue">this is BLUE</p></font>
>
>it prints it in like a bright green. but if i use the RGB # then its
fine.
>weird....
>
>2. if there is an apostrophe in the notes, then it will add slashes it
to
>that as well
>
>so if I type blah blah blah I am going over to my friend's website
later on
>and here is the address...
>
><a href="http://friends.com>Friends</a>
>
>it will look like
>
>friend\\\'s
>
>Friends(link)
addslashes() is for escaping values that you're going to insert into a
database.
If you're generating HTML, use htmlspecialchars() instead.