I made a simple news system with comments using PHP and MySQL, and it worked great on my local Apache server, both on my Fedora 10 machine, and my Windows 7 one. Now I have a problem though, I uploaded it to a web host and it keeps returning all the ‘ and ” as \’ and \”.
I believe this is either the web host who by automatic adds them for security reasons or that the MySQL is the wrong collation, but I have not been able to resolve it yet, testing multiple MySQL collations.
Here is a example of a query:
mysql_query("INSERT INTO news (title, poster, text, time) VALUES ('$newstitle', '1', '$newstext', '$time')") or die(mysql_error());
$time is time();
$newstitle and $newstext are parsed from $_POST and both are ran through mysql_real_escape_string() before I run the query (I guess this might be the problem, but since it is a part of the security I just don’t want to remove it, and since it did not cause problems on my local servers)
As a final note: On my local apache servers I had latin1_swedish_ci which did not work on the web hosts server.
EDIT:
They look like this in the database:
\'\'\'\"\"\"
While on my local ones they didn’t have the extra backslash, so it must be the PHP adding it. Is there any way to solve this except adding a function that removes extra backslashes?
These additional backslashes are probably Magic Quotes. Try to disable them or remove them before processing the data.