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Originally Posted by perplexed
Black-dog first of all most importantly many thanks for the replies. I was fearing that my requests for help would have exceeded peoples patience limits.
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I'm a coder - I have endless patience...
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was going to post the form scripts and complete script for the form action but thought it would either bore/annoy you or take up to much space on the forum. Having said that they are very small.
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Usual advice is to cut down scripts to the minimum that still shows the error
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I will indeed change all my scripts across my site to use the (new to me) 'mysql_real_escape_string'. First of all i need to get the database running again. It's not accessible to others anyway, as only myself has a username and password for it.
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mysql_real_escape_string() won't solve this problem, but it's good practice to sanitise any user input, even if it is password protected.
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Also, scottie mentioning php.ini now reminds me my parameter print out was obtained from the php documentation. I was searching for it in the mysql docs.
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You really don't need to be making any changes here, even if you can.
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I apologise if this is all now more fitting in the php forum???
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Oh we'll probably let you off...
