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PHP special character removal

RobertFoster · 2004-07-08 14:29:45

is there anyway to remove special characters (such as slashes, dots, (semi)colons etc) from user input so it wont mess up the database when it's written to it?

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08-07-2004 3:29pm

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RobertFoster

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is there anyway to remove special characters (such as slashes, dots, (semi)colons etc) from user input so it wont mess up the database when it's written to it?

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#2 08-07-2004 4:38pm
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http://ie.php.net/addslashes

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#3 09-07-2004 9:41pm
RobertFoster

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thanks.

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