One more point here. > Simply adding a quote is not the proper way to handle this in PHP. Not really. There are other malicious characters that can be used in sql statements. The one in the front of my mind is ";", used to terminate a query and begin a new one. Think of $IDNumber=";drop database foo". (This can be helped by using a database with proper access controls set up, so the user the web process normally connects as does not have permission to drop a database. I don't know if this product sets itself up like that by default). Good programming practice is to code a function specifically to strip any possible malicious characters out of strings, and wrap it around every variable put into a query, whether it should be user-supplied or not. Addslashes is a good function to call from your stripping function, but it should not be your only line of defense. Ryan Fox
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