thanks everybody for your help, i actually had the solution before posting :))
my question was not a 'how to' but why do we need to escape single quotes
on unix systems and not on windows using the same version of php and mysql?
At 21:44 07/08/01, you wrote:
>Dear PHP-General (bit of strange, uh?),
>
>I guess what you are looking for is this:
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php
>
>Hope it helps.
>
>Regards,
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "hassan el forkani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:32 PM
>Subject: mysql escape character \'
>
>
> > greetings;
> >
> > i'm not sure if this is a mysql or php issue so i'm posting to both
>lists,
> >
> > i'm developping a community web site with news, forums......;
> > while working on the admin section i noticed this behaviour:
> >
> > on my hosting platform (linux)
> > i need to replace single quotes by \' to properly insert the data into
>the
> > database and avoid errors
> > on my dev machine (win98) there is no need to do so as single quotes
>are
> > properly inserted and attempting to escape them actually inserts \'
>instead
> > of ';
> >
> > so the same code does not have the same output on windows and linux
> >
> > can someone explain??
> >
> >
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