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Asked: 2026-05-27T02:19:28+00:00

I want to save a URL like the one below in a MySQL table

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I want to save a URL like the one below in a MySQL table

http://www.google.com/search?q=mysql+rel+scape&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=uUt&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&ei=t_jMTtvUE4jfsgbA_4HdDA&ved=0CBgQvwUoAQ&q=mysql+real+escape&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=6f9f60a823dcbbc2&biw=1920&bih=901

but it’s only saved up to

http://www.google.com/search?q=mysql rel scape

I tried UTF-8, text, varchar column types but it doesn’t seem to work. This is what i use for my insert query:

'".addslashes($_POST['url'])."',

Can anyone point me out where is the problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to store the full url, you will have to use urlencode

    $url = urlencode('http://www.google.com/search?q=mysql+rel+scape&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=uUt&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&ei=t_jMTtvUE4jfsgbA_4HdDA&ved=0CBgQvwUoAQ&q=mysql+real+escape&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=6f9f60a823dcbbc2&biw=1920&bih=901');

    This will store the & as & which can be stored in the database.

    Don’t forget to take a look at security, never accept a $_POST blindly in your database. Like Polynomial said: Efficiently sanitize user entered text

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