RE: [PHP] submitting free-form text to a database
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:37:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] submitting free-form text to a database | ||
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> >===== Original Message From Duncan Hill <dhill@pct.edu> =====
> >On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, garman wrote:
> >
> >> box where the user enters a description of the item he is selling.
> >> If the user's input contains an apostrophe (aka a single quote
> >> "'")
> >> or even a double quote, the code gets confused.
> >
> >addslashes()
> >
> >RTM :)
>
> I was originally using regular expressions to achieve the same effect as
> addslashes(). But I switched to addslashes() anyway, and the problem
> persists.
>
> My guess is that MS Access uses a method other than slashes to escape quotes.
Probably ''
Turn on magic_quotes_sybase in your php.ini file and it should work.
-Rasmus