Re: FN-FORUM: mysql question - large text file [OT]

date posted 7th January 2004 15:30

On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 3:14 pm, Andy Stafford wrote:
> > Nice one, but:
> > Does MySQL have an addslashes() equivalent?
>
> Out of interest, why addslashes() and not mysql_escape_string() ?

Because the book I used to learn about this stuff told me to use it.

Looking at the manual pages, for addslashes() it specifically=20
mentions entering strings into a database, and for the other
one it talks about using a string in a query. But it's not 100%=20
clear what the difference is. Care to Clue me up?

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