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-----Original Message----- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 5:41 PM To: Todd Williamsen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] addslashes() At 16:54 -0600 2/7/02, Todd Williamsen wrote: >Ok.. > >i tried it out... and it almost works like I want it... weird though > >1. when I put in <p><font color="blue">this is BLUE</p></font> > >it prints it in like a bright green. but if i use the RGB # then its fine. >weird.... > >2. if there is an apostrophe in the notes, then it will add slashes it to >that as well > >so if I type blah blah blah I am going over to my friend's website later on >and here is the address... > ><a href="http://friends.com>Friends</a> > >it will look like > >friend\\\'s > >Friends(link) addslashes() is for escaping values that you're going to insert into a database. If you're generating HTML, use htmlspecialchars() instead. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
