Question

I’m scraping a feed and adding the values to a database.

One of the values is description. Description is freestyle so there can be any character.

How do I insert the values into the database to display it on a webpage later.
I want to keep the description and title text as is.

…

$title = $item['title'];
$href = $item['link'];
$desc = $item['description'];

$query = "INSERT INTO FEED_CONTENT (title, link, desc) VALUES ('".mysql_real_escape_string($title)."','".$href."',
'".mysql_real_escape_string($desc)."')";

…

Thanks

Answer 1

Using mysql_real_escape_string with the magic quotes enabled will escape your data twice.

Note: If magic_quotes_gpc is enabled,
first apply stripslashes() to the
data. Using this function
[mysql_real_escape_string] on data
which has already been escaped will
escape the data twice.

While outputting those content you can use stripslashes function.

echo stripslashes($data['description']);

EDIT

desc is mysql reserved word and you must enclose desc in backticks “

$query = "INSERT INTO FEED_CONTENT (title, link, `desc`)
          VALUES (
                  '".mysql_real_escape_string($title)."',
                  '".$href."',
                  '".mysql_real_escape_string($desc)."'
                 )";