Issues with backslashes and GET data
| From: | Martin Selway | Date: | Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:03:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Issues with backslashes and GET data | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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I use a php page which is supposed to return records from a database table limited to the servername specicified in a drop down menu.
A servername may contain a backslash e.g. Server1\SQL1.
When this data is returned from the URL e.g. $server = $_GET['server'];
The name is returned as Server1\\SQL1, so the search fails.
I've tried using a regular expression to remove one of the backslashes:
$server = ereg_replace("\\", "\", $server);
but I can't get this to work either.
Any suggestions welcome, I'm running out of ideas.
Martin