Re: Sanitizing potential MySQL strings with no database connection

> test if you have a db connection in the function, if not, skip MRES and > other mysql_ functions? > I thought that one could not test if a database connection is established or not, this is the most relevant thing that I found while googling that: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29645 > In my opinion it's bad code to use a mysql_* function on a Oracle db (and > vice versa) or on a string for that matter. It lies in the naming of the > function what it's designed to do and work on. If you want a general > function to sanitize an input, make your own function sanitize_input() based > on ereg_* and/or str_replace and the likes. > All the connections are to MySQL databases, but to _different_ MySQL databases on the same host. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il