Re: PHP/MySQL + 'special' characters

That may work, however, one big concern right now is getting some tab delimited text into the DB as well, so how MySQL will handle it is a problem. The server has magic_quotes on, so that should hopefully help with data from the web. Will that take care of the accent issue, or do I need to locally turn off magic_quotes and do addslashes()? thanks, Joe Gavster wrote: > Yo Joe, > > Did you try the addslashes() function? > > At 04:56 PM 09/05/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Actually, I can't use this because I need to have the user input the data so I > >can't count on them to do this. Anyway, I did try to do this once and it still > >freaked...any other ideas? Thanks > > > >John Guynn wrote: > > > > > Have you tried escaping the character when you enter it? In other > > words put > > > a \ before the character MySQL balks at. That simple fix has saved me many > > > headaches recently. > > > > > > John Guynn > > > > > >-- > >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net