Re: [PHP4BETA] Addslashes

Chris- I ran into the same problem, but after more testing (and lots of hair pulling), I finally realized that the information coming back from the form was already escaped, so doing it again (with addslashes) is what over escaped the data. Hope this helps, -Ben Schumacher At 11:05 AM 12/15/99 +0100, you wrote:

Guys, i think i hit a bug in the php-4b3 release. Ive got a script that saves a text field from a entry form (<textarea>) into a DB field (mysql mediumtext). On submission i do a

    $text = addslashes($text);

to prevent SQL errors. When i save this 'string', and edit the content again it has still got \'s in the text. Eg

    begin text : i'm curious how this will work
    text after addslashes (so send to the DB) : i\\\'m curious
    text when querying/displaying string: i\'m curious

So it seems the addslashes function is a little escape happy in php-4b3. Ps this behaviour isnt present in the php-3 series, and is new under php-4b's ...