Question

i am using rawurlencode($url_variable) while passing to a script..
when i receive the variable in the script ,before passing this variable to mysql ,i was doing mysql_real_escape_string . now the problem is like when there is a variable like

$url_variable = "Off-St.Mark's-Road" …after i do mysql_real_escape_string it become slike

Off-St.Mark\\’s-Road .

which is creating a problem in mysql query …

how i get over this…rawurlencode is necessary to pass variables to the script and i want to do mysql_real_escape_string to make the data safe…

Answer 1

Looks like magic_quotes_gpc is turned on on your server, try this:

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc())
{
   $text = stripslashes($your_var);
}

$text = mysql_real_escape_string($text);