problems with saving and retrieving data with new line (\n and \r\n)and slashes from mysql database

[JM]

Before storing information from a form in database I perform follwing
operations on it :
$path =
mysql_real_esca pe_string(strip _tags(trim(urld ecode($_POST['path']))));
$summary =
mysql_real_esca pe_string(strip _tags(trim(urld ecode($_POST['summary']))))

When I look in database I see '\r\n' in the text for the summary
wherever I pressed return-key.
When i retrieve the information from database and display it on webpage
'\r\n' is displayed even when I use
nl2br or
str_replace("\r \n", "<br/>", $content) or
str_replace(arr ay("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), "<br>", $text) or
preg_replace("/\r\n|\n|\r/", "<br>", $text)
the '\r\n' is replaced with a <br>.
How is the possible ? The functions work when I let them handle a string
like "A little bit of\r\ntext".

A folder is stored as 'H:\\\\My Pictures\\\\Ane mone.jpg' in the
database. When I want to display the folder I use the function
stripslashes first but then I still get 'H:\\My Pictures\\Anemo ne.jpg'.
Why should I apply stripslashes twice ?

Hope you can help me,

JM!

[Koncept]

Re: problems with saving and retrieving data with new line (\n and \r\n) and slashes from mysql database

In article <Haadnd6dl8LDhj TYRVnyigA@scarl et.biz>, JM <reply@group.sv p>
wrote:

Before storing information from a form in database I perform follwing
operations on it :
$path =
mysql_real_esca pe_string(strip _tags(trim(urld ecode($_POST['path']))));
$summary =
mysql_real_esca pe_string(strip _tags(trim(urld ecode($_POST['summary']))))
>
When I look in database I see '\r\n' in the text for the summary
wherever I pressed return-key.
When i retrieve the information from database and display it on webpage
'\r\n' is displayed even when I use
nl2br or
str_replace("\r \n", "<br/>", $content) or
str_replace(arr ay("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), "<br>", $text) or
preg_replace("/\r\n|\n|\r/", "<br>", $text)
the '\r\n' is replaced with a <br>.
How is the possible ? The functions work when I let them handle a string
like "A little bit of\r\ntext".
>
A folder is stored as 'H:\\\\My Pictures\\\\Ane mone.jpg' in the
database. When I want to display the folder I use the function
stripslashes first but then I still get 'H:\\My Pictures\\Anemo ne.jpg'.
Why should I apply stripslashes twice ?
>
Hope you can help me,
>
JM!

<snip>
magic_quotes_ru ntime boolean

If magic_quotes_ru ntime is enabled, most functions that return data
from any sort of external source including databases and text files
will have quotes escaped with a backslash.
</snip>

See get_magic_quote s_gpc() in the docs.

You can easily add code to account for this possibility:
get_magic_quote s_gpc() && $str = strip_tags( $str );

I'm also willing to bet that your line breaks are currently double
escaped e.g. "\\r\\n".

--
Koncept <<
"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are
prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be a spirit." -Nietzsche

[JM]

Re: How to correctly store and retrieve input from a textarea (withLF and CR) in MySQL ?

Koncept wrote:

In article <Haadnd6dl8LDhj TYRVnyigA@scarl et.biz>, JM <reply@group.sv p>
wrote:
>

>Before storing information from a form in database I perform follwing
>operations on it :
>$path =
>mysql_real_esc ape_string(stri p_tags(trim(url decode($_POST['path']))));
>$summary =
>mysql_real_esc ape_string(stri p_tags(trim(url decode($_POST['summary']))))
>>
>When I look in database I see '\r\n' in the text for the summary
>wherever I pressed return-key.
>When i retrieve the information from database and display it on webpage
> '\r\n' is displayed even when I use
>nl2br or
>str_replace("\ r\n", "<br/>", $content) or
>str_replace(ar ray("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), "<br>", $text) or
>preg_replace ("/\r\n|\n|\r/", "<br>", $text)
>the '\r\n' is replaced with a <br>.
>How is the possible ? The functions work when I let them handle a string
>like "A little bit of\r\ntext".
>>
>A folder is stored as 'H:\\\\My Pictures\\\\Ane mone.jpg' in the
>database. When I want to display the folder I use the function
>stripslashes first but then I still get 'H:\\My Pictures\\Anemo ne.jpg'.
>Why should I apply stripslashes twice ?
>>
>Hope you can help me,
>>
>JM!

>
<snip>
magic_quotes_ru ntime boolean
>
If magic_quotes_ru ntime is enabled, most functions that return data
from any sort of external source including databases and text files
will have quotes escaped with a backslash.
</snip>
>
See get_magic_quote s_gpc() in the docs.
>
You can easily add code to account for this possibility:
get_magic_quote s_gpc() && $str = strip_tags( $str );
>
I'm also willing to bet that your line breaks are currently double
escaped e.g. "\\r\\n".
>

If I take get_magic_quote s_gpc() into consideration it now works fine
except for line feeds and carriage returns.

if (get_magic_quot es_gpc()) {
$sq = stripslashes($_ POST['Summary']));
} else {
$sq = $_POST['ShortDesc'];
}
$Summary = mysql_real_esca pe_string(strip _tags(trim(urld ecode($sq))));

This code works for quotes en uri's. But whatever combinations I've
tried including using nl2br on storing and/or retrieving. It doesn't
work for line feeds and carriage returns.
Either \r\n is displayed on webpage or rn.

How to correctly store and retrieve input from a textarea (with LF and
CR) in MySQL ?

JM

[Carl Pearson]

Re: How to correctly store and retrieve input from a textarea (withLF and CR) in MySQL ?

Try this: http://www.michikono.com/code/DbSafe/DbSafe.php