Re: Passing Ampersand and Dot to PostGreSQL - MySQL

2011-11-04 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
Andre showed the way: use LiveCode's native databinding methods instead of my old fashioned replacement strings and the values are automatically escaped. On 11/2/11 11:44 AM, Pete wrote: Interesting. I don't have Postgres but I tried an insert into an SQLite table with text containing an ampe

Re: Passing Ampersand and Dot to PostGreSQL - MySQL

2011-11-02 Thread G. Wolfgang Gaich
Hello Sivakatirswami, I think it's an unicode problem if your database is UTF8. I use this function in that case to execute the SQL: function exeSQL_UTF8 pSQL -- pSQL is your SQL string global gDB local tRS local tSQL put unidecode(uniencode(pSQL),"UTF8") into tSQL put revdb_

Re: Passing Ampersand and Dot to PostGreSQL - MySQL

2011-11-02 Thread Pete
Interesting. I don't have Postgres but I tried an insert into an SQLite table with text containing an ampersand and it worked just fine. Same with mySQL. This was on my desktop machine though, not over the web. The docs for SQLite,mySQL, and Postgres only mention the need to escape the single-q

Re: Passing Ampersand and Dot to PostGreSQL - MySQL

2011-11-02 Thread stephen barncard
Trevor does. There are escaping handlers in his old MySQL Abstraction Library, if you have that around. On 2 November 2011 13:25, Sivakatirswami wrote: > I'm having some difficulty with passing data from a web form to a > PostGreSQL database. I'm using iRev on the server and gFormData has all th

Passing Ampersand and Dot to PostGreSQL - MySQL

2011-11-02 Thread Sivakatirswami
I'm having some difficulty with passing data from a web form to a PostGreSQL database. I'm using iRev on the server and gFormData has all the data in the array. After handling all the data, running the CC charges, sending notifications, everything works, but my final functions to insert the dat