note 49979 added to function.pg-update

Beware of the following: pg_insert() and pg_update() are adding slashes to all character-like fields they work with. This makes them SQL injection super-safe, but there are unwanted consequences, as follows: If you have a regular setup with magic_quotes_gcp=On, and you use pg_insert() or pg_update(), you will end up with fields that look as if you used addslashes() twice. To solve this, you can use stripslashes() on the data just before using it with pg_insert() or pg_update(). There's another alternative, which seems better to me. Why make yourself crazy all over the code, adding slashes, stripping slashes, worrying whether magic_quotes_gpc is on or off and so on and so forth? Why do this, when the only place you actually need those slashes is right when you push the data into the database? So why not get rid of your addslashes() and stripslashes() from all over your code, and turn magic_quotes_gcp off. As long as you always use pg_insert() and pg_update() to do your DB work, you're SQL-injection safe AND slash-headache free. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-update.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+49979 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49979&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49979&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49979&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49979&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49979&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+49979&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php