"Arpad Tamas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think stripslashes() isn't needed when retrieving data from the db, > it is needed only in the query string to protect special chars from > interpretting them as sql.
I want to say this isn't true, but maybe that depends on the configuration of PHP (I'm thinking magic quotes settings off-hand). From experience I know that stripslashes() can be needed when retrieving data from a db. Just today I've had to do so for clients separately using PostgreSQL and MySQL. YMMV. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]