Re: [ADMIN] Re:

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Terry Mackintosh wrote:
>Hi Ken, Bill and all
>
>Na!
>First, as a web interface you should be using PHP 3.x, you are right?
>
>OK, that said, do this:
>$chktext = ereg_replace("'", "''", $chktext);

Can't you just enable magic quotes in the php3 conf file to have this
accomplished automatically?  Or call:

$chktext = addslashes($chktext);

>That will take every ' in the data, and replace it with '' (2 ') which is
>how you escape a ' in PostgreSQL (and all SQL?).
>
>Hope that helps, have a great day
>Terry
>
>On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>
>> Ken Wills wrote:
>>
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > I have an annoying problem, that I just haven't been able to get around yet. When I parse the
>> > input from a form and go to insert it eveything works fine as long as the user doesn't use
>> > the ' character in the input. I've tried using qw{} and qq{}, which either don't interpolate
>> > or give me errors. Anyone have any suggestions? Postgres 6.4, Apache 1.3, mod_perl 1.16.
>> > The insert statement is below.
>> >
>> > my $query_string=qq{INSERT INTO CALLS (ca_service_id, ca_org_name, ca_phone_number, ca_status,
>> > ca_product, ca_problem, ca_resolution, ca_contact_name, ca_assigned, ca_date) VALUES ('$service_id',
>> > '$org_name', '$phone_number', '$status', '$product', '$problem', '$resolution', '$contact',
>> > '$assigned', '$time_now')};
>> >
>>
>> I have the same problem with DB2. I encode the ' character as &39 or 0x39. Then on output I reparse the
>> field and display the results. (I also encode the & character or whatever I use to delimit the
>> character.)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bill Cunningham
>> Database Development Project Lead
>> Bally Systems
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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