PHP Language - How to upload form data containing special characters correctly?

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How to upload form data containing special characters correctly?

Wim Cossement

2006-09-04, 3:57 am

Hello,

I was wondering if there are a few good pages and/or examples on how to
process form data correctly for putting it in a MySQL DB.

Since I'm not used to using PHP a lot, I already found out that
addslashes() can be used escape some characters, but I'm having some
more problems with for instance ä, å and µ (since the text is scientifical)
Now some people also throw in htmlspecialchars() to convert those to
HTML entities, but some nest htmlspecialchars() in addslashes() and
others do the opposite.

Is there a good and error proof way of ensuring that what one puts in a
textarea gets stored and can be retrieved safe and sound?

Thanks in advance,

Wimmy

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