Re: Should I convert special characters before writing them to a table?
| From: | Steve Werby | Date: | Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:44:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Should I convert special characters before writing them to a table? | ||
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"René Fournier" <renefournier@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The reason I ask is, I'm having a problem processing rows in a table that
> contain single quotes (specifically, the PHP code I wrote that allows the
> user to duplicate a row doesn't work if the a field in the row has a
single
> quote in it).
Try addslashes() before executing the query and stripslashes() when
retrieving data from the db. See the online manual for more details.
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