Re: addslashes()
| From: | Joe Van Meer | Date: | Tue, 05 Feb 2002 00:38:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: addslashes() | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.db |
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Hi. addslashes() going in to db, stripslashes() coming out :)
HTH Joe :)
Todd Williamsen <todd@williamsen.net> wrote in message
news:002601c1b033$382a4700$f6b2d83f@goofy1...
> 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.
>
>