I think you mean addslashes()
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:37
Subject: Re: special characters in MySQL query
> If you are using PHP there is the htmlspecialchars() function that will do
just that for you.
>
> cheers,
> thalis
>
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Robert Heron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 6:35 PM
> > > Subject: special characters in MySQL query
> > >
> > >
> > > > I have written a program which reads data from WWW forms and passes
> > > it to
> > > > MySQL queries. All works fine except for the cases when the form is
> > > filled
> > > > with characters like '%', '"', ''', etc. Then, these characters are
> > > treated
> > > > like special, formatting characters in SQL query, which, of course
> > > demage
> > > > the SQL query. I know that this problem can be solved by adding '\'
> > > char
> > > > before each such special character, but users typing texts in the
> > > form by
> > > > WWW will not know that.
> > > > Is there any simple way in MySQL to solve this problem?
> > > >
> > > > Robert
>
>
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