Re: RE: [PHP] special characters with perl,mysql,php

On Saturday 24 February 2001 07:49, Mitchell Hagerty wrote: > The special character I'm concerned with at the moment is the back tick > ` which mysql doesn't like on an insert. I was looking for a way not to > parse the entire file evertime I inserted or extracted them from the > database. Its simple enough todo in perl and php just seems like it > would burn alot of cpu time. > > I was actually hoping mysql would have a way to encode it on the way in > and decode on the way out. That way php or perl would be irrelevant. > Guess not :\ Well, as someone else already said, addslashes () is the tool of choice for the way in, and for he way out you don't need to do anything. -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972