Re: [PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes

2010-08-19 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Ahhh.. Kapu where were you three months ago?? :) Prepared statements sounds like the way to go, but at this point that would mean converting a lot of pages. I will have to investigate some more about this and convert the code over at a later date. For now I think mysql_real_escape_string will w

Re: [PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes

2010-08-19 Thread kapuoriginal
I think you should use prepared statements. Kapu -- From: "Karl DeSaulniers" Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 12:05 AM To: Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:36

Re: [PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes

2010-08-19 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: You should be using http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-escape-string.php You don't need to search with extra slashes for retrieval. -Original Message- From: Karl DeSauln

Re: [PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes

2010-08-19 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: You should be using http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-escape-string.php You don't need to search with extra slashes for retrieval. -Original Message- From: Karl DeSaulniers [mailto:k...@designdrumm.com] Sent: Thursday, Augus

Re: [PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes

2010-08-19 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: You should be using http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-escape-string.php You don't need to search with extra slashes for retrieval. -Original Message- From: Karl DeSaulniers [mailto:k...@designdrumm.com] Sent: Thursday, Augu

RE: [PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes

2010-08-19 Thread Daevid Vincent
You should be using http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-escape-string.php You don't need to search with extra slashes for retrieval. > -Original Message- > From: Karl DeSaulniers [mailto:k...@designdrumm.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:29 PM > To: php-db@lists.php.net >

[PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes

2010-08-19 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Hello, When I add an item to my database and I use addslashes(), do I have to use addslashes() to a query that looks for that item? Or would I be adding double slashes and canceling my own result? TIA Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com