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Re: [PHP3] [HOW TO] Passing serialized data around From: Sascha Schumann (sascha <email protected>)
Date: 03/27/99

On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 01:09:39PM +0100, auke <email protected> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Sascha Schumann wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > I've got a question about this. I'm using MySQl to store serialized
> > > data, but I don't use AddSlashes, I use ereg_replace("'","''",...)
> > > I've tried to use AddSlashes/StripSlashes, but it seems that this can
> > > corrupt the data. e.g.
> > >
> > > Suppose you have a string $temp="a \\'string";
> >
> > echo $temp
> >
> > a \'string
> >
> > You are overseeing that PHP also uses slashes.
> >
>
> No, I am not, this is the whole point :) I specifically made this string
> to break the serialize/addslashes/stripslashes/unserialize chain when
> stored in a mysql database. Because I actually had that happen once :(

Well, then I suppose I must miss your point.

In your previous email you said...

> now when you retrieve this string, mysql will already have interpreted
> the slashes when you inserted this data, so the string that you retrieve
> will be: "a \'string"

That is exactly the string you stored. I do not consider that to be bad. 

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          Regards,

                            Sascha Schumann | 
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