Re: [PHP-DB] Hello

Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
> What does this do exactly?
> Documentation was a bit fuzzy for me.
> Is it needed at all times to protect with?

Per the docs:

prepends backslashes to the following characters: \x00, \n, \r, \, ', " 
and \x1a.

So anything that has a null character, a newline (windows/linux/mac), 
single and double quotes and \x1a (not sure what that is) is escaped and 
ready to be put in a query.

If you don't quote those characters someone could put one of those 
characters in a query and cause problems - starting off with an invalid 
query but possibly ending up worse.

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