> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:43 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: how to store quotes in mysql?
>
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 08:37 am, Kristen G. Thorson wrote:
> >
> > [ stuff here ]
> >
> > kgt
> I'm confused.. did you read my email? Most of what you said doesn't
seem
> to
> correlate with what I said. Can you quote the specific lines that
you're
> disagreeing with?
> --
> Chris White
> PHP Programmer/DBacillus
> Interfuel
Sure:
"Yes, MySQL stores it that way for a specific reason."
MySQL does not STORE escape characters, unless you have escaped an
escape character. The following query:
INSERT INTO myTABLE VALUES ('I\'m Happy');
is instructing MySQL to store the string value "I'm Happy." It does not
store "I\'m Happy."
"Now when displaying, you'll have to unescape the slashes generally."
A clear indication that you have over-escaped your data. If you have
properly escaped your queries, then you should never need to unescape
them.
If
SELECT string_value FROM myTable;
returns
I\'m Happy
then you have inserted your data as follows:
INSERT INTO myTable VALUES( 'I\\\'m Happy' );
This happens because magic quotes produced escaped data:
I\'m Happy
You then run addslashes() or similar and end up with this:
I\\\' Happy
kgt
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