Re: escaped characters problem

From: Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:36:45 +0000
Subject: Re: escaped characters problem
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Look at: addslashes(); ----- Original Message ----- From: Lez Lytollis <Lez.Lytollis@ccr.ntu.ac.uk> To: PHP-db list <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:21 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] escaped characters problem > I have a written a simple news input interface for our admin staff to add > articles to our website. When they have an article name containing a single > quote, the string is cut off at that point on generation of the sql string. > > example > --------- > > original typed entry in description field: Lez's quote test > echoed $description value: Lez\'s quote test > $strsql = "INSERT INTO news (description) VALUES ( '$description' )"; > echoed $strsql value: Lez\ > > Can anyone tell me what is going on and how I can fix it? > > Thanks in advance > > Lez > > > > > -- > 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 >

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