Don’t use addslashes for database escapes
Filed Under (General) by Wenbert on 04-12-2007
Tagged Under : MySQL, PHP, Web Development
From jansch.nl:
This is not the best way to escape data. The most important reason is security. addslashes can lure you into a false sense of security. As Chris Shiflett points out, there are situations that addslashes doesn’t escape.
Use mysql_real_escape_string instead.