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jayR

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When I was taking my class in PHP 4, we were always taught to escape all user input before using it in our queries like good little coders.  However, after upgrading to PHP 5 I noticed that it looks like PHP will automatically escape the user's input for you, so I guess my question is, do we still need to escape everything that we get from users, or can we trust PHP to do that for us now?
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I guess the thing I don't understand is that I have inputted illegal strings into the database through my PHP (i.e. "Jay's Input") and it is automatcally escaped when I check its value in the database.  I'm more wondering why it is doing it for me without me telling it to, not how I would do it manually.
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