Re: Should I convert special characters before writing them to a table?
| From: | Arpad Tamas | Date: | Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:01:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Should I convert special characters before writing them to a table? | ||
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> Try addslashes() before executing the query and stripslashes() when
> retrieving data from the db. See the online manual for more
> details.
I think stripslashes() isn't needed when retrieving data from the db,
it is needed only in the query string to protect special chars from
interpretting them as sql.
Arpi