leegold2 wrote:
When I look directly in my db field I see a difference between these two
functions. The top line (seebelow) was inserted with addslashes vs. the
bottom line where I used mysql_real_esca pe_string. Obviously addslashes
really escapes the apostrophe. But I thought mysql_real_esca pe_string is
supposed to do that too - can anyone explain? Thanks, Lee G.
This is Aviva\'s website.
This is Sarah's website.
What were:
* the original strings before escaping
* the strings after escaping, as they appeared in the SQL you sent to
the server?
I don't see any difference on a test string with an apostrophe on these
functions in 4.3.8 or 5.0.2:
<?php
$originalstring = "Apostrophe 's rock";
echo $originalstring , "\n";
echo addslashes( $originalstring ), "\n";
echo mysql_escape_st ring( $originalstring ), "\n";
echo mysql_real_esca pe_string( $originalstring ), "\n";
?>
output:
Apostrophe's rock
Apostrophe\'s rock
Apostrophe\'s rock
Apostrophe\'s rock
Can you confirm that the pre-escaping string for "This is Aviva\'s
website." did not contain a backslash, and that the same query was used
to insert both samples? Did the data from from a literal string, a file,
or from a web form? If you're using the magic_quotes_gp c option
(unfortunately the default is on, I believe), you need to run
stripslashes() on any text that comes from GET/POST/COOKIE variables
before further processing.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
