Need help: mysql/php + $'s

[louash]

I'm working on a script that uses sockets to do remote admin, and the username includes a $ (example: u$er).

Of course, its breaking because I can't seem to escape the darned $ (tried storing in the db as u\$er but no luck).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ahundiak]

Not positive what you are asking but:
$username = 'u$ser';
Or
$username = "u" . '$' . "ser";
Will both work.

[louash]

sorry, i probably didnt provide enough info. below is a snip of the more important parts of the script....

the string stored in the database is u$er.

snip
$return1 = mysql_fetch_array($result1);

$enpass = $return1[9];
snip
$enpass1 = $enpass . "\n";
socket_write( $socket, $enpass1, strlen( $enpass1 ) );

$enpass contains a string with a $ in it, as described above. From what i can tell, this charactor is causing everything to break, but i've no idea how to work around it in this instance.

[louash]

I was wrong.

The problem is not related to $'s but the less-than charactor:

<

so, the rest of the string is being chopped off after the <, therefore the script is not able to login.

I still have no idea of how to work around the problem.

[ahundiak]

Do you know where the chopping is occuring? You could try using htmlspecialchars($enpass1) which will encode the <> characters. But I doubt if it will help.