RE: [PHP-WIN] addslashes() and binary data
| From: | Ignatius Teo | Date: | Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:33:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-WIN] addslashes() and binary data | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.windows |
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try base64_encode($binary_data)...
Ignatius
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall Barber [mailto:rdb55@email.byu.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, 10 February 2001 12:23
> To: php-windows@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP-WIN] addslashes() and binary data
>
>
> A curious man is me.
>
> I have some binary data that I wish to insert into a
> database, and all examples I have seen have used:
>
> $to_save = addslashes($binary_data);
>
> This is supposed to escape all the characters that databases
> don't like.
>
> This function does not always work. Some times it is fine,
> other times it causes my SQL statement to be completely
> wrong, or it evaluates the ('$to_save') variable as NULL and
> returns SQL COUNT field incorrect.
>
> Am I missing something? Can someone tell me how they
> guarantee that all the bad characters will be escaped?
> Thanks in advance
> RDB
>