Re: addslashes() vs. magic_quotes_gpc

Compare mysql_escape_string() to addslashes() http://www.php.net/mysql_escape_string -- Jon Kriek http://phpfreaks.com "Jake McHenry" <linux@nittanytravel.com> wrote in message news:003d01c396c3$50030470$12a2e518@FAMILY... If you have magic_quotes_gpc = On in your php.ini file, which it is by default, does one still need to have the addslashes function in their coding? When I'm inserting into my database, I have addslashes in place, and I haven't change the default value of magic_quotes_qpc = On. I havn't seen any side effects from this. It seems like it's doing this job twice. Would any speed difference be seen by using / not using either of these? I currently have 3 databases, roughtly 25 tables each, with roughly 500 entries in each (growing about 50 daily), and it's starting to get sluggish when I do a select * from tablename. I need to recover all the speed I can. If anyone has any other little tweaks I can do to gain performance, that would be helpful. Thanks, Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com