Re: mysql_real_escape_string() question

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:06:45 -0400, tedd wrote: > Hi gang: > > In one of my snip-its, namely: > > http://xn--ovg.com/pdf > > I was generating a pdf document after the user filled in a form. I > had been cleaning the user input by using -- > > $name = mysql_real_escape_string($name); > > -- even though I wasn't using MySQL (the code was a cut-paste from > some other code I had). > > However, everything worked! > > But, a couple of days ago it suddenly stopped working. Now, I get the > following error: > > Warning: mysql_real_escape_string(): Access denied for user > 'nobody'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in ... > > When I comment-out the offending statement, it runs. I replaced the > statement, but wonder what happened -- when did using > mysql_real_escape_string() require a password? > > What's up with that? Any ideas as to what happened? > > tedd Hi Tedd, According to http://nl3.php.net/mysql_real_escape_string The function requires a MySQL connection. If there is none, it will try and create one. That fails now. Possibly you could use addslashes()? Regards, Ivo