Re: [PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes

[email protected] (Karl DeSaulniers)
Newsgroups php.db
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:29 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [PHP-DB] Slashes or no slashes
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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Ah, but lets say I am using a character set utf-8, I should use  
mysql_real_escape_string() instead?
Best,

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com
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