What that function does is look in a string and find the ascii value of 
each character within that string.  Depending on the value, it replaces it 
with an escaped string.  For instance, say you are passing the string
"I love pickles\nThey are good to me\nPickles are made\nFrom cucumbers".  
Ignoring the fact that the above sentence is the most random thing I've 
written in my life, it will replace all the \n's with \\n so the database 
doesn't change it to
"I love pickles
They are good to me
Pickles are made
From cucumbers".

I hope that gives you a better idea.  I didn't check through it to find 
any syntax errors.

Devon O'Dell

> As I work with this members only file, The submit function is now
> functioning [Thank you Adam]  but there is a parsing error on 
> >  function mysql_escape_string($s)  
>  when I try to run the file. This is an include and I'm trying to figure
> out if I need it and /or if there might be a simpler work around.  The
> script is older so it may not be functioning correctly in php4.  It has
> to do with adding info to a database. 
> 
> <?  
>   
>     if ($g_databasename=="")  
>     {  
> 
>          
> 
>  
>         function mysql_escape_string($s)  
>         {  
>             $sl=strlen($s);  
> 
>             for ($a=0;$a<$sl;$a++)  
>             {  
>                 $c=substr($s,$a,1);  
> 
>                 switch(ord($c))  
>                 {  
>                     case 0:  
>                          $c = "\\0";  
>                                 break;  
>                     case 10:  
>                         $c = "\\n";          
>                         break;  
>                     case 9:  
>                         $c = "\\t";  
>                         break;  
>                     case 13:  
>                         $c = "\\r";      
>                         break;  
>                         case 8:  
>                         $c = "\\b";  
>                         break;  
>                     case 39:  
>                         $c = "\\'";  
>                         break;  
>                     case 34:  
>                         $c = "\\\"";  
>                         break;  
>                            case 92:  
>                         $c = "\\\\";  
>                         break;  
>                     case 37:  
>                         $c = "\\%";  
>                         break;  
>                     case 95:  
>                         $c = "\\_";  
>                         break;  
>                 }  
>       
>                 $s2.=$c;  
>             }  
> 
>             return $s2;  
>         }  
> 
> 
> 
>     }  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ?>  
> 
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