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Originally Posted by smithygotlost

excellent star as always nico

now whats the best way to stop sql injects ??

ive tried things like

$profile_text = preg_replace('/\'\'/', '\'', $profile_text);
if ($_POST["text"] != ""){
	$new_profile_text = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["text"]);

ect what else can i use ??

Thanks
Mike

That should be good enough, but depending on what your escaping, you can just limit the characters allowed, for example, for the username on my site, i only allows [a-zA-Z0-9] so that stopped any possible use of special chars in the username field