Re: I will not eat them Sam-I-Am

"Justin" <kgb@graffitilandscape.com> wrote in message news:NFBBLLHMALGFBKEPPKHAGEOLCEAA.kgb@graffitilandscape.com... > INSERT INTO database VALUES( 'bill's bowtie'); Bad syntax: try INSERT INTO database ( fieldname ) VALUES ( 'this string' ) > and then I want to feed it back into phpMyAdmin it gives me an error. > Basically, it's confused by the middle apostrophe. So how can I dump this > statement back into phpMyAdmin other than by manually adding a slash before > each apostrophe that will confuse it? AddSlashes() NOTE that MySQL will interpret these and turn the string back to the original internally, so there is no need to StripSlashes() when retrieving the string.