escapce unvalid charactors

[Yarco]

I have a silly question. We know when we add text into database, we
always need to escapce the unvalid charactors.
But why it is not done automatically by database?

[Michael Fesser]

Re: escapce unvalid charactors

..oO(Yarco)

>I have a silly question. We know when we add text into database, we
>always need to escapce the unvalid charactors.
>But why it is not done automatically by database?

With prepared statements (PDO) it's done automatically, more or less.

Micha