NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Shiflett]

Aaron Fischer wrote:
 > $sb_string = "I\'\'m heading out on the road";

You don't have to escape single quotes when you enclose the string with 
double quotes. I wrote a bit more on quoting strings here:

http://shiflett.org/archive/140

Dan Cech wrote:
 > return $sybase ? str_replace ("''", "'", $var) : stripslashes ($var);

I prefer this approach when it helps me avoid escaping. In this case, I 
think both look confusing, but the escaping makes it worse.

Chris

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