You could have PHP escape it for you. Look into the addslashes function. It adds slashes to escape characters. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.addcslashes.php
If your server has magic quotes turned on it will automatically escape characters, but it is not a good idea to rely on that. If you want to thank someone, I would just reply to that person, not to the list. -----Original Message----- From: ahimsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: whats the best way to imput text and formated text into a mysql database Thank you so much everyone for all of your support! I asked a question re: a mysql post error when the text containd apostrophe and commas. I got feedback re: delimiting and putting a / before each comma and appostrophy. The problem is that this is not feasable for me to do this on so much text, besides its messy etc. does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to imput text into a mysql database that is simple that will accept what ever text, It would be great if it could be formated text. But is this possible. Maybe i should be using a blob field instead of a text field or somethign. Im not sure. Im using mysql with php in my forms. i maybe need to do all of this differently. My goal is to imput pages and pages of text into text fields. Thank you all so much. Also Is it ok to write a thank you to people when they reply or is it standard etiquette to not reply ? Thanks again so much. leeann --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
