How would I go about inserting apostrophes ‘ into MySQL without it throwing any errors in PHP. What would be the proper way to echo them out from MySQL too.
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How would I go about inserting apostrophes ‘ into MySQL without it throwing any errors in PHP. What would be the proper way to echo them out from MySQL too.
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You need to consider both PHP and MySQL, and if you are using a framework, that too.
As far as PHP is concerned, you need to use the opposite style of quote from those contained in your string, or else “escape” them, like this:
As for MySQL, you should use an escaping function, like mysql_real_escape_string or similar.
There is a more advanced technique for using user-supplied data in queries called “prepared statements”, which is the most robust and safe way to achieve dynamic queries with user-supplied parameters. See this section of the docs to get started.