having trouble with "\"

[uzairrahim]

Hi, I am new to PHP and MySQL, though i have a good command on ActionScript 2.0

I am working on an application that is based on Flash, PHP and MySQL.

 

From the Flash file i m sending a string variable to PHP to store in the database, the string is a path to a directory on a local network

"\\aus-fs-1\development\content..."

 

but when i look into the database the string is stored as "\aus-fs-1developmentcontent...", missing all the  slashes, except for the first one.

 

Could anyone tell me how to deal with this problem.

 

Thanks

[redbullmarky]

with the variable you're using, are you running the data through stripslashes at all before putting it in the DB?

if there are no "escaping" slashes in the string (ie, the result of running the data through addslashes/mysql_real_escape_string), then it'll take out others with undesirable results.

[uzairrahim]

never heard of stripslashes before i am a noob

 

i am storing the value from flash into a variable in PHP and then directly entering the value (from the php variable) into the DB, how can i fix the problem?

[uzairrahim]

ok i used addslashes() and it works for me

Thanks,