Special Chars in DB

[Anon]

Hi all,
What is the best way to allow characters such as single ticks ' to be inserted into a MySQL DB via a web form? If I use addslashes..I would need to use stripslashes when the data is extracted, correct?
Is there any function that could be used when the data is going in, that would'nt require a function when coming out of the DB?

Thanks in advance!
gary

[Anon]

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sorry, i had to try something.

 still trying something

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