note 49707 added to function.mysql-escape-string

er um... version_compare did not exist prior to 4.1.0 in any case, adding slashes and dealing with magic quotes etc. is a sure recipe for major headaches. You can avoid a whole slew of problems by converting your strings to hex (bin2hex) before passing them to mySQL mySQL will accept any value in the form of 0xFEAC1234... It will then automagically convert it back to a string for storage and retrieval while avoiding all of the zillions of problems with special characters. I have done this with some very large records and never had a problem. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-escape-string.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+49707 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49707&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49707&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49707&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49707&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49707&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+49707&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php