I have this query:
$sql = "
INSERT INTO table SET
name = '$name',
sku = '$number',
description = '$desc'
";
But the rows containing some special characters (in my case this ') are not inserted.. How I can solve?
Thanks in advance.
When you construct your query, you need to escape the data you are inserting.
You need to at least use addslashes() function in PHP, like this:
$sql = "INSERT INTO table SET name = '".addslashes($name)."', sku = '".addslashes($number)."', description = '".addslashes($desc)."'";
However more correct way is to use a different function than addslashes, which would properly handle all characters in the data, not only apostrophes.
I am using my custom 'escape' function like this:
function escape($text)
{
return str_replace(array('\\', "\0", "\n", "\r", "'", '"', "\x1a"), array('\\\\', '\\0', '\\n', '\\r', "\\'", '\\"', '\\Z'), $text);
}
So using this function, you would write:
$sql = "INSERT INTO table SET name = '".escape($name)."', sku = '".escape($number)."', description = '".escape($desc)."'";
You must use parameterised queries instead of manually appending those values. Currently if name, number or description would contain any sql it would get executed.
A lot more detailed answer is in How can I prevent SQL injection in PHP?
Read about escaping characters in mysql. I think it is done with \
I need to insert ~150 simple rows (an id, and a static status of 'discard'). I have a string of the ids:
'123', '234r', '345', '456xyz'...
What's the simplest way to insert rows using this string of ids?
It seems like maybe there's some way to split the string on commas and... create a temp table to ...? I don't know - it just seems like this is the kind of thing that MySQL often manages to pull off in some cool, expedient way.
An example how to do create an INSERT statement with a few lines of PHP:
<?php
// copy your string of ids into this variable
$input = "'123', '234r', '345', '456xyz'";
// modify next line to get your desired filename
$filename = 'insert.sql'
// modify next line to your table name
$insert_statement = "INSERT INTO your_table_name (id, status) VALUES \n" .
'(' . implode(", 'discard')\n(", explode(', ', $input)) . ", 'discard');\n";
file_put_contents($filename, $insert_statement);
?>
Note
This is for this special use case. If the string of ids contains some special characters like single quotes, then this simple approach will fail.
The one way is to create CSV file with appropriate records and upload it at once to mysql.
Please follow this tutorial: http://www.mysqltutorial.org/import-csv-file-mysql-table/
I'm having problems getting special characters like apostrophes and such from being added into my database.
I have the following code that adds data from a form into my database.
mysql_query("INSERT INTO people(`ID`, `Name`, `Description`)
VALUES (NULL, '$name', '$desc')") or die(mysql_error());
Form code looks like so:
$query = "SELECT * FROM people";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($person = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
echo "<h3>" . $person['Name'] . "</h3>";
echo "<p>" .$person['Description'] . "</p>"}`
How would I go about fixing this so that the string field accepts special characters?
if you want add special character in MySQL database use
mysql_real_escape_string($name)
after that insert into database
You could use mysql_real_escape_string
$insert_data = mysql_real_escape_string($input_data);
Assuming that you have the data stored as $input_data
Just use mysql_real_escape_string
$insert_data = mysql_real_escape_string($input_data);
Assuming that you have the data stored as $input_data
I have a textarea and am submitting the form it is in using AJAX using GET.
I want to preserve the whitespace, so i have a url that look a bit like
http://.../notes/insert/?user_id=12¬e_string=new /r/r/r/r/r/rline&account_id=
however when i use $this->db->insert();
it converts the query to
INSERT INTO `notes` (`user_id`, `note_string`, `account_id`)
VALUES ('12', 'new \\r\\r\\r\\r\\r\\rline', '')
(in the controller i then replace /r for \r)
Is there a way of escaping the escape? lol or just letting the \r through?
Thank you
Take a look at 'Query Bindings' in the CodeIgniter documentation http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/queries.html
$sql = "SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE id = ? AND status = ? AND author = ?";
$this->db->query($sql, array(3, 'live', 'Rick'));
How do I insert a value in MySQL that consist of single or double quotes. i.e
This is Ashok's Pen.
The single quote will create problems. There might be other escape characters.
How do you insert the data properly?
Put quite simply:
SELECT 'This is Ashok''s Pen.';
So inside the string, replace each single quote with two of them.
Or:
SELECT 'This is Ashok\'s Pen.'
Escape it =)
' is the escape character. So your string should be:
This is Ashok''s Pen
If you are using some front-end code, you need to do a string replace before sending the data to the stored procedure.
For example, in C# you can do
value = value.Replace("'", "''");
and then pass value to the stored procedure.
See my answer to "How to escape characters in MySQL"
Whatever library you are using to talk to MySQL will have an escaping function built in, e.g. in PHP you could use mysqli_real_escape_string or PDO::quote
Use this code:
<?php
$var = "This is Ashok's Pen.";
mysql_real_escape_string($var);
?>
This will solve your problem, because the database can't detect the special characters of a string.
If you use prepared statements, the driver will handle any escaping. For example (Java):
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(driverUrl);
conn.setAutoCommit(false);
PreparedStatement prepped = conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO tbl(fileinfo) VALUES(?)");
String line = null;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
prepped.setString(1, line);
prepped.executeQuery();
}
conn.commit();
conn.close();
There is another way to do this which may or may not be safer, depending upon your perspective. It requires MySQL 5.6 or later because of the use of a specific string function: FROM_BASE64.
Let's say you have this message you'd like to insert:
"Ah," Nearly Headless Nick waved an elegant hand, "a matter of no importance. . . . It's not as though I really wanted to join. . . . Thought I'd apply, but apparently I 'don't fulfill requirements' -"
That quote has a bunch of single- and double-quotes and would be a real pain to insert into MySQL. If you are inserting that from a program, it's easy to escape the quotes, etc. But, if you have to put that into a SQL script, you'll have to edit the text (to escape the quotes) which could be error prone or sensitive to word-wrapping, etc.
Instead, you can Base64-encode the text, so you have a "clean" string:
SWtGb0xDSWdUbVZoY214NUlFaGxZV1JzWlhOeklFNXBZMnNnZD
JGMlpXUWdZVzRnWld4bFoyRnVkQ0JvWVc1a0xDQWlZU0J0WVhS
MFpYCklnYjJZZ2JtOGdhVzF3YjNKMFlXNWpaUzRnTGlBdUlDNG
dTWFFuY3lCdWIzUWdZWE1nZEdodmRXZG9JRWtnY21WaGJHeDVJ
SGRoYm5SbApaQ0IwYnlCcWIybHVMaUF1SUM0Z0xpQlVhRzkxWj
JoMElFa25aQ0JoY0hCc2VTd2dZblYwSUdGd2NHRnlaVzUwYkhr
Z1NTQW5aRzl1SjMKUWdablZzWm1sc2JDQnlaWEYxYVhKbGJXVn
VkSE1uSUMwaUlBPT0K
Some notes about Base64-encoding:
Base64-encoding is a binary encoding, so you'd better make sure that you get your character set correct when you do the encoding, because MySQL is going to decode the Base64-encoded string into bytes and then interpret those. Be sure base64 and MySQL agree on what the character encoding is (I recommend UTF-8).
I've wrapped the string to 50 columns for readability on Stack Overflow. You can wrap it to any number of columns you want (or not wrap at all) and it will still work.
Now, to load this into MySQL:
INSERT INTO my_table (text) VALUES (FROM_BASE64('
SWtGb0xDSWdUbVZoY214NUlFaGxZV1JzWlhOeklFNXBZMnNnZD
JGMlpXUWdZVzRnWld4bFoyRnVkQ0JvWVc1a0xDQWlZU0J0WVhS
MFpYCklnYjJZZ2JtOGdhVzF3YjNKMFlXNWpaUzRnTGlBdUlDNG
dTWFFuY3lCdWIzUWdZWE1nZEdodmRXZG9JRWtnY21WaGJHeDVJ
SGRoYm5SbApaQ0IwYnlCcWIybHVMaUF1SUM0Z0xpQlVhRzkxWj
JoMElFa25aQ0JoY0hCc2VTd2dZblYwSUdGd2NHRnlaVzUwYkhr
Z1NTQW5aRzl1SjMKUWdablZzWm1sc2JDQnlaWEYxYVhKbGJXVn
VkSE1uSUMwaUlBPT0K
'));
This will insert without any complaints, and you didn't have to manually-escape any text inside the string.
You should escape the special characters using the \ character.
This is Ashok's Pen.
Becomes:
This is Ashok\'s Pen.
If you want to keep (') apostrophe in the database use this below code:
$new_value = str_replace("'","\'", $value);
$new_value can store in database.
You can use this code,
<?php
$var = "This is Ashok's Pen.";
addslashes($var);
?>
if mysqli_real_escape_string() does not work.
In PHP, use mysqli_real_escape_string.
Example from the PHP Manual:
<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}
mysqli_query($link, "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE myCity LIKE City");
$city = "'s Hertogenbosch";
/* this query will fail, cause we didn't escape $city */
if (!mysqli_query($link, "INSERT into myCity (Name) VALUES ('$city')")) {
printf("Error: %s\n", mysqli_sqlstate($link));
}
$city = mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $city);
/* this query with escaped $city will work */
if (mysqli_query($link, "INSERT into myCity (Name) VALUES ('$city')")) {
printf("%d Row inserted.\n", mysqli_affected_rows($link));
}
mysqli_close($link);
?>
$var = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_POST['varfield']);
If you are using PHP, just use the addslashes() function.
PHP Manual addslashes
For programmatic access, you can use placeholders to automatically escape unsafe characters for you.
In Perl DBI, for example, you can use:
my $string = "This is Ashok's pen";
$dbh->do("insert into my_table(my_string) values(?)",undef,($string));
Use either addslahes() or mysql_real_escape_string().
The way I do, by using Delphi:
TheString to "escape":
TheString=" bla bla bla 'em some more apo:S 'em and so on ";
Solution:
StringReplace(TheString, #39,'\'+#39, [rfReplaceAll, rfIgnoreCase]);
Result:
TheString=" bla bla bla \'em some more apo:S \'em and so on ";
This function will replace all Char(39) with "\'" allowing you to insert or update text fields in MySQL without any problem.
Similar functions are found in all programming languages!
Maybe you could take a look at function QUOTE in the MySQL manual.
This is how my data as API response looks like, which I want to store in the MYSQL database. It contains Quotes, HTML Code , etc.
Example:-
{
rewardName: "Cabela's eGiftCard $25.00",
shortDescription: '<p>adidas gift cards can be redeemed in over 150 adidas Sport Performance, adidas Originals, or adidas Outlet stores in the US, as well as online at adidas.com.</p>
terms: '<p>adidas Gift Cards may be redeemed for merchandise on adidas.com and in adidas Sport Performance, adidas Originals, and adidas Outlet stores in the United States.'
}
SOLUTION
CREATE TABLE `brand` (
`reward_name` varchar(2048),
`short_description` varchar(2048),
`terms` varchar(2048),
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=6 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
While inserting , In followed JSON.stringify()
let brandDetails= {
rewardName: JSON.stringify(obj.rewardName),
shortDescription: JSON.stringify(obj.shortDescription),
term: JSON.stringify(obj.term),
}
Above is the JSON object and below is the SQL Query that insert data into MySQL.
let query = `INSERT INTO brand (reward_name, short_description, terms)
VALUES (${brandDetails.rewardName},
(${brandDetails.shortDescription}, ${brandDetails.terms})`;
Its worked....
If nothing works try this :
var res = str.replace(/'/g, "\\'");
var res = res.replace(/"/g, "\\\"");
It adds the \ escape character to all(every) occurrences of ' and "
Not sure if its the correct/professional way to fix the issue
I'm guessing it will work but in actual content, every single and double quotes will be replaced with \ character
As a Python user I replace the quote with a raw "'":
don_not_work_str = "This is Ashok's Pen."
work_str = don_not_work_str.replace("'", r"\'")
For Python，I tried many ways to escape '"', not work, cuz I have various input.
Finally, I just use these code, the data in database was same like the input.
tmp = val.replace('\\', r'\\')
ret = tmp.replace('"', r'\"')