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Subodh Gupta wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I created a table using the create command.
>
> create table trivia
> (
> entry_id integer not null auto_increment,
> trivia text null
> );
>
> Now I have a fle tvia.txt, the content of which are as follows:
>
> The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
> The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched".
> All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
> No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
>
> I want to insert each line of the file in a new row in the table.
>
> I wrote the following code for it.
>
> <?php
> include "db.php";
> dbconnect("guestbook2k");
> $fcontents=file("tvia.txt");
> while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($fcontents)) {
> $query="insert into trivia (trivia) values ('$line')";
> $result = mysql_query($query)
> or die("Query failed: "
> ."<li>errorno=".mysql_errno()
> ."<li>error=".mysql_error()
> ."<li>query=".$query
> );
> echo "<b>Line $line_num:</b> ". $line . "<br>\n";
> }
> ?>
>
> I got the following error.
> Query failed:
> errorno=1064
> error=You have an error in your SQL syntax near 's left hand does 56% of the typing.
>')' at line 1
> query=insert into trivia (trivia) values ('The average person's left hand does 56%
>of the typing. ')
>
> Now I know that I got the error because there was ( ' ) in the first line. So how
>do I prevent this. Or in other words insert into
> the table text containing
> ( ' ) and ( " ) or for that matter any metacharacter.
>
> Thank You in Advance.
>
> Subodh Gupta
> I have learned, Joy is not in things, it is in us.
> You will ultimately be known by what you give and not what you get.
>
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