use mysql_real_escape_string
bastien
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:40:47 -0600> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> php-general@lists.php.net> Subject: [PHP] how to handle inserting special
> characters into a mysql field> > I'm going to be inserting data from a PHP
> form into a mysql field. The > data could contain special characters like < >
> ' " \ /, etc. How do I > handle that? just $data =
> addslashes(htmlspecialchars($data)); before > the insert query? because later
> on the data will be read back from the > mysql db and I don't want it to
> contain a special character that would > break the PHP script.> > -- > PHP
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