You need to go:
addSlashes($strexp) on the string before inserting it.
This will replace all 's and "s with \' and \"
You open up a massive security hole in your database if you're not
addSlashing every value that goes in...
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-php-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-php-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of arun kv
> Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2002 1:19 PM
> To: PGSQL
> Subject: [PHP] insert a special character
>
>
> hello,
> I have a string with ' this symbol in the middle of the text
> example:-
> " that book belong to rahul's sister"
>
> this string is to be stored in the variable "$strexp"
> when I am inserting this variable in database table
> following error apperes
>
>
> " parse error at or near "s" "
>
> How can I read the string and store in a variable and insert the same
> into the database table ?
>
> thanks in advance ,
> with regards,
> Arun
>
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