The following function is from Larry Ullman's PHP and mySQL on page 217 -
script 6.8 - in which there is a connection to a mySQL database using PHP.
My question is that I'm not sure of the global variable $dbc.
If I am to understand...this made up function escape_data() will receive a
piece of data - say $_POST['first_name'] - and then check if
magic_quotes_gpc is turned on in the ini file.
If it returned true, then stripslashes will be applied to the data - if it
is not turned on, then slashes will be applied to the data variable.
What is the reason that the global variable $dbc is declared in the
function - I cannot find another instance of $dbc outside of the function in
script 6.8.
Thank you,
Tony Ritter
.....................
function escape_data($data)
{
global $dbc;
if (ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc'))
{
$data=stripslashes($data);
}
return mysql_real_escape_string($data,$dbc);
}
.............................
//check for a first name
if(empty($_POST['first_name']))
{
$fn=FALSE;
$message='<p>You forgot to enter you first name</p>';
}
else
{
$fn= escape_data($_POST['first_name']); // calling the function
}
..............
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