note 100854 modified in function.mysql-real-escape-string by danbrown

From: Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:32:13 +0000
Subject: note 100854 modified in function.mysql-real-escape-string by danbrown
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calling this function twice, or on a string for which quotes have already been escaped, causes the quotes to be escaped twice.An example is where we have to check for magic_quotes_gpc before calling mysql_escape_string to sanitize the inputs. The following function can be used to escape singe and double quotes in a string with out the risk of escaping quotes twice.This function escapes a quote, only if it hasn't already been escaped. <?php function safe_string_escape($str) { $len=strlen($str); $escapeCount=0; $targetString=''; for($offset=0;$offset<$len;$offset++) { switch($c=$str{$offset}) { case "'": // Escapes this quote only if its not preceded by an unescaped backslash if($escapeCount % 2 == 0) $targetString.="\\"; $escapeCount=0; $targetString.=$c; break; case '"': // Escapes this quote only if its not preceded by an unescaped backslash if($escapeCount % 2 == 0) $targetString.="\\"; $escapeCount=0; $targetString.=$c; break; case '\\': $escapeCount++; $targetString.=$c; break; default: $escapeCount=0; $targetString.=$c; } } return $targetString; } echo safe_string_escape("asda'sda\'dsad\"sadasd'"); ?> above code echoes asda\'sda\'dsad\"sadasd\' You can see that the second single quote wasnt escaped again.. --was-- calling this function twice, or on a string for which quotes have already been escaped, causes the quotes to be escaped twice.An example is where we have to check for magic_quotes_gpc before calling mysql_escape_string to sanitize the inputs. The following function can be used to escape singe and double quotes in a string with out the risk of escaping quotes twice.This function escapes a quote, only if it hasn't already been escaped. function safe_string_escape($str) { $len=strlen($str); $escapeCount=0; $targetString=''; for($offset=0;$offset<$len;$offset++) { switch($c=$str{$offset}) { case "'": // Escapes this quote only if its not preceded by an unescaped backslash if($escapeCount % 2 == 0) $targetString.="\\"; $escapeCount=0; $targetString.=$c; break; case '"': // Escapes this quote only if its not preceded by an unescaped backslash if($escapeCount % 2 == 0) $targetString.="\\"; $escapeCount=0; $targetString.=$c; break; case '\\': $escapeCount++; $targetString.=$c; break; default: $escapeCount=0; $targetString.=$c; } } return $targetString; } echo safe_string_escape("asda'sda\'dsad\"sadasd'"); ?> above code echoes asda\'sda\'dsad\"sadasd\' You can see that the second single quote wasnt escaped again.. http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php

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