Philip Thompson wrote:
On Jun 23, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:

...



Well, that was a mouthful. I actually am using a Mac and it showed \r \n

I reckon you could edit together a nice fat 700 page book on PHP just by 
scraping
posts made by Richard :-) ... every other month ;-)

to me. What I think I will do is not use mysql_real_escape_string until I want to actually insert it into the database. So the information I

YES YES YES. good man, that is a good observation - i.e. you should only
be escaping/santizing/whatever data for the specific purpose you have in mind
and not blanket escaping regardless of the directions you will be throwing the 
data in.

re-display back to the user *should* be the same as  what they wrote.

actually I have DB edit screens that always show what is in the DB rather than 
what the
user has tried to submit - because otherwise the user tends to think that their 
changes
were accepted rather (and no ammount of errors/warning/whatever will change 
their minds)
that the DB choked on their input - in such cases I just throw out everything 
that could not
be updated - the user is garanteed to be looking at whatever the DB contains 
when a
page/editform is loaded.


Thanks for your inputs. I appreciate each of you.

me too, but I'm biased towards Paris Hilton ;-)

~Philip


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