I'm getting the value of a field from a mysql database. The value has single quotes in both sides like this: 'foo'.
When I retrieve the data using a PHP method from the html template, I get this code:
'foo'
but I want it shows just 'foo' (with the quotes).
Any idea?
Javier
' is the ASCII code for apostrophe-quote.
If using PHP, use html_entity_decode() around the data being displayed from the database.
i.e. echo html_entity_decode($database_field_data);
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php
use str_replace.
echo str_replace("'" , "'" , $data['string']);
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The MySQL documentation says that it should be \'. However, both scite and mysql shows that '' works. I saw that and it works. What should I do?
The MySQL documentation you cite actually says a little bit more than you mention. It also says,
A “'” inside a string quoted with “'” may be written as “''”.
(Also, you linked to the MySQL 5.0 version of Table 8.1. Special Character Escape Sequences, and the current version is 5.6 — but the current Table 8.1. Special Character Escape Sequences looks pretty similar.)
I think the Postgres note on the backslash_quote (string) parameter is informative:
This controls whether a quote mark can be represented by \' in a string literal. The preferred, SQL-standard way to represent a quote mark is by doubling it ('') but PostgreSQL has historically also accepted \'. However, use of \' creates security risks...
That says to me that using a doubled single-quote character is a better overall and long-term choice than using a backslash to escape the single-quote.
Now if you also want to add choice of language, choice of SQL database and its non-standard quirks, and choice of query framework to the equation, then you might end up with a different choice. You don't give much information about your constraints.
Standard SQL uses doubled-up quotes; MySQL has to accept that to be reasonably compliant.
'He said, "Don''t!"'
What I believe user2087510 meant was:
name = 'something'
name = name.replace("'", "\\'")
I have also used this with success.
There are three ways I am aware of. The first not being the prettiest and the second being the common way in most programming languages:
Use another single quote: 'I mustn''t sin!'
Use the escape character \ before the single quote': 'I mustn\'t sin!'
Use double quotes to enclose string instead of single quotes: "I mustn't sin!"
just write '' in place of ' i mean two times '
Here's an example:
SELECT * FROM pubs WHERE name LIKE "%John's%"
Just use double quotes to enclose the single quote.
If you insist in using single quotes (and the need to escape the character):
SELECT * FROM pubs WHERE name LIKE '%John\'s%'
Possibly off-topic, but maybe you came here looking for a way to sanitise text input from an HTML form, so that when a user inputs the apostrophe character, it doesn't throw an error when you try to write the text to an SQL-based table in a DB. There are a couple of ways to do this, and you might want to read about SQL injection too.
Here's an example of using prepared statements and bound parameters in PHP:
$input_str = "Here's a string with some apostrophes (')";
// sanitise it before writing to the DB (assumes PDO)
$sql = "INSERT INTO `table` (`note`) VALUES (:note)";
try {
$stmt = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$stmt->bindParam(':note', $input_str, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$stmt->execute();
} catch (PDOException $e) {
return $dbh->errorInfo();
}
return "success";
In the special case where you may want to store your apostrophes using their HTML entity references, PHP has the htmlspecialchars() function which will convert them to '. As the comments indicate, this should not be used as a substitute for proper sanitisation, as per the example given.
Replace the string
value = value.replace(/'/g, "\\'");
where value is your string which is going to store in your Database.
Further,
NPM package for this, you can have look into it
https://www.npmjs.com/package/mysql-apostrophe
I think if you have any data point with apostrophe you can add one apostrophe before the apostrophe
eg. 'This is John's place'
Here MYSQL assumes two sentence 'This is John' 's place'
You can put 'This is John''s place'. I think it should work that way.
In PHP I like using mysqli_real_escape_string() which escapes special characters in a string for use in an SQL statement.
see https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.real-escape-string.php
I want to write a test like:
cy.get('table').contains('th', 'Reviewer's comment').should('exist');
in the application I have a column called 'Reviewer's comment' but in the contains I am not able to use single quote sign, I was trying with the code ' but does not work:
Any idea how to resolve it?
Since you tagged typescript, I'm assuming that code is TypeScript. In TypeScript (and in JavaScript too), you can escape ' using \', but you don't need to escape if you use " to delimit the sting. Try this:
cy.get('table').contains('th', "Reviewer's comment").should('exist');
I have another query about my database, I'm using Codeigniter and wheneve I get the data using span and saving it to my MySQL database it inludes a \n in the data and that causes error. Why is that so? here is the problem
VALUES('\n16', 'SMDC')`
but Im onlu getting the value of 16 in my column where it is set to span.
well \n is a special character for mysql and other languages and it means: end of line (character line). you have to escape that kind of characters using another backslash "\" before them.
See this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-literals.html
For you with codeigniter an example is this:
$search = '\n16';
$sql = "SELECT id FROM table WHERE column LIKE '%".$this->db->escape_like_str($search)."%'";
See this for more info:
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/database/queries.html
I have insert to columns with single quotes. As $this->db->query already takes care of all the special character. But my problem is i to insert data like ganesh's when the insertion takes place, only ganesh is inserted; data after the single quotes are missing. So i started using $this->db->escape but this adds single quotes to my data which is not required how to prevent this
my code
$sql="insert into tablename (list_name,list_address) values(?,?)"
$res=this->db-query($sql,array($name,$add));
MY mistake was in front end. Not back end. I will delete the question.
In cases of complex queries i find it easier to just send raw query like this :
$query = "your query";
$result = $this->db->query($query);
Don't forget to escape variables before inserting them to the query like this :
$var = $this->db->escape($var);
If you want to save the data with the single quote you will need to add slashes to the data before saving it to the database like this:
$sql="insert into tablename (list_name,list_address) values(?,?)";
$res=this->db-query($sql,array(addslashes($name), $add));
then save that into your database, after doing this you will most likely need to use stripslashes() to remove the slashes from the data before you output it to the browser.
The MySQL documentation says that it should be \'. However, both scite and mysql shows that '' works. I saw that and it works. What should I do?
The MySQL documentation you cite actually says a little bit more than you mention. It also says,
A “'” inside a string quoted with “'” may be written as “''”.
(Also, you linked to the MySQL 5.0 version of Table 8.1. Special Character Escape Sequences, and the current version is 5.6 — but the current Table 8.1. Special Character Escape Sequences looks pretty similar.)
I think the Postgres note on the backslash_quote (string) parameter is informative:
This controls whether a quote mark can be represented by \' in a string literal. The preferred, SQL-standard way to represent a quote mark is by doubling it ('') but PostgreSQL has historically also accepted \'. However, use of \' creates security risks...
That says to me that using a doubled single-quote character is a better overall and long-term choice than using a backslash to escape the single-quote.
Now if you also want to add choice of language, choice of SQL database and its non-standard quirks, and choice of query framework to the equation, then you might end up with a different choice. You don't give much information about your constraints.
Standard SQL uses doubled-up quotes; MySQL has to accept that to be reasonably compliant.
'He said, "Don''t!"'
What I believe user2087510 meant was:
name = 'something'
name = name.replace("'", "\\'")
I have also used this with success.
There are three ways I am aware of. The first not being the prettiest and the second being the common way in most programming languages:
Use another single quote: 'I mustn''t sin!'
Use the escape character \ before the single quote': 'I mustn\'t sin!'
Use double quotes to enclose string instead of single quotes: "I mustn't sin!"
just write '' in place of ' i mean two times '
Here's an example:
SELECT * FROM pubs WHERE name LIKE "%John's%"
Just use double quotes to enclose the single quote.
If you insist in using single quotes (and the need to escape the character):
SELECT * FROM pubs WHERE name LIKE '%John\'s%'
Possibly off-topic, but maybe you came here looking for a way to sanitise text input from an HTML form, so that when a user inputs the apostrophe character, it doesn't throw an error when you try to write the text to an SQL-based table in a DB. There are a couple of ways to do this, and you might want to read about SQL injection too.
Here's an example of using prepared statements and bound parameters in PHP:
$input_str = "Here's a string with some apostrophes (')";
// sanitise it before writing to the DB (assumes PDO)
$sql = "INSERT INTO `table` (`note`) VALUES (:note)";
try {
$stmt = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$stmt->bindParam(':note', $input_str, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$stmt->execute();
} catch (PDOException $e) {
return $dbh->errorInfo();
}
return "success";
In the special case where you may want to store your apostrophes using their HTML entity references, PHP has the htmlspecialchars() function which will convert them to '. As the comments indicate, this should not be used as a substitute for proper sanitisation, as per the example given.
Replace the string
value = value.replace(/'/g, "\\'");
where value is your string which is going to store in your Database.
Further,
NPM package for this, you can have look into it
https://www.npmjs.com/package/mysql-apostrophe
I think if you have any data point with apostrophe you can add one apostrophe before the apostrophe
eg. 'This is John's place'
Here MYSQL assumes two sentence 'This is John' 's place'
You can put 'This is John''s place'. I think it should work that way.
In PHP I like using mysqli_real_escape_string() which escapes special characters in a string for use in an SQL statement.
see https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.real-escape-string.php