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[Carlos A Hoyos]

> I'm currently reading "Building Scalable Web Sites" by Cal Henderson
> (which I think is great so far for anyone making large [or potentially
> large] web apps).  In the section about avoiding sql injection attacks,
> he says "the more complicated mysql_real_escape_string escapes a bunch
> more characters but is ultimately unnecessary (although useful for
> making logs easier to read)."  I thought that was interesting -
> "ultimately unnecessary."


mysql_real_escape_string takes into consideration the character set which
addslashes doesn't.

You are safe if you're using ansi-8859 or utf-8, but other character
encodings which have valid characters ending in 0x5c will not be properly
escaped by addslashes.

Chris has an example of this here: http://shiflett.org/archive/184

Carlos Hoyos