inserting into mysql

[Anon]

Hi, I have a script where my users can submit articles, they get stored in my mysql database. However, just today I realized that if the article contains stuff like ()"";, or etc, im not sure what characters actually cause it. But it messes up when the article is being submited. Got any ideas? Do I need to block out articles with that stuff in it, and how would I do that? Thanx for you help!

[knickerlas]

Hi
I think addslashes() should sort it out together with stripslashes()

Ex:

$user_input=addslashes($user_input);
// stick it in the DB

// query DB
$pulled_from_db=stripslashes($user_input);

Hope that helps

Nick