Re: [PHP] mysqli_connect problem

On 03/01/2010 07:54 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: Any suggestions? Tom Yes I have one. Whatever book you are using, burn it then shoot it! Without looking at the query, it is most likely failing because you are inserting un-escaped data into your database. So when you enter something like: G

[PHP] mysqli_connect problem

I am a newbie. The following script works but the second one (below) loads the variables from an html form and then fails. The connection commands in the second sript are identical as the first script was copied from the first. Only the variable values have been changed. #!/usr/bin/php # The f

Re: [PHP] mysqli_connect problem

ok, couple of things; - if you're using user input in SQL queries, you have to push 'm through a function that sanitizes the input against sql-insertions. For now, let that be function antiSQLinsertion ($var) { return mysql_real_escape($var); }; - if you're going to output values from the DB into

[PHP] mysqli_connect problem

I am a newbie. The following script works but the second one (below) loads the variables from an html form and then fails. The connection command in the second sript are identical as the first script was copied from the first. Only the variable values have been changed. #!/usr/bin/php # The fol