Posted by Michael Fesser on 08/10/07 01:14

..oO(Sanders Kaufman)

>> ZeldorBlat wrote:
>
>>> Yes. But you haven't said which database you're using. If you're
>>> using MySQL you want mysql_real_escape_string().
>
>It's interesting that this function is not fully a part of PHP, but
>rather relies on some libraries in MySQL.

You would be surprised how many of PHP's functions are just wrappers
around external libraries. I would say that's the case for >90% of it.

>Seems to me, if I was the PHP guys, I wouldn't have made it so.

You would have rewritten all the functions of the MySQL library in PHP?
Think about it ...

Micha

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