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Ok thanks, looks like I have a lot of reading and learning to do then. I am really just a begginer at coding although my site has been up for 10 years and managed to do the job I needed. I can get away with it as is for now but should really rewrite it from scratch but not sure where to start. I still use mysql_query but read that it should be mysqli now or something else PDO and there is lots of conflict on which to use reading various posts on the net.

Hi All, Newbie here. I run a website using xmb forums software as a base login script to connect to my database and created my own crude and simple pages for adding and displaying the data learning as I went. Over the years with recent upgrades of php versions its now virtually useless and unsecure code. I archive a lot of news articles but have had trouble pasting text that includes apostrophe's and special characters, but managed to fix that using addslashes() now. Can someone suggest a tutorial or a way to rebuild my site from scratch or something I can use as a template to connect to my pages ?.