note 27853 deleted from function.addslashes by didou

Note Submitter: thebitman@attbi.com ---- there is a function mentioned above which I will call "addslashes_once()", it is posted anonymously. DO NOT USE THAT FUNCTION! first, look at the code: addslashes_once($str) { if((string)stripslashes($str) === (string)$str) return addslashes($str); else return $str; } Now, consider what it would do with this: "\\' LIMIT 1; DELETE FROM records WHERE 1" oops. Yes, it's annoying that addslashes will add to something already slashed, but remember that it does that for a reason! There is no way to know if a string has been slashed or not unless you just do what I do: Just plain disallow the \ from anything that will be used to look something up. For many purposes that is way too restrictive, so it's best to take the hard road, and just keep track of your addslashes() usage.