Ok, as I said before, you can store whatever you please in your database. However, please don't "speak as an experienced web programmer" when not longer than three hours ago you finally found a solution to store quoted text in a database.
Bogdan Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: > I realize that part - my whole point was that it didn't really matter how it > was stored as long as it gets extracted/parsed correctly. With that in mind, > instead of using 3 functions to store, extract, and parse the data, I can > use one function to prepare the data to be stored in a format that can be > extracted directly into an form-friendly format. > > Not to mention that HTML entities are still ASCII characters, and I do not > foresee any problems with using the HTML entities in place of quote marks. > > To me, it makes the most sense. Quote marks are generally special characters > used everywhere, and storing them as quote marks instead of the entities > seems to be asking for trouble, in my opinion. I've stored values using > slashes for the past few years, and that method has given so many > problems... Speaking as an experienced web programmer, I believe this is a > much more practical method for a lot of us. -- PHP Database 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]