Looking for comments whether this is a bug or not

The actual value of those variables are pulled in from other sources,
they are not actually hard coded like I showed below. It was simply for
illustration purposes.

Jeremy

Your string assignments look wrong. For example, "\t" is a tab
character. Try your test cases with 'This is a test email. Testing
c:\test\foo.exe'; that should give you a proper string.

Ken

Jeremy Johnstone wrote:

I am not sure if this is a bug, but I have came across two test cases
where the behavior is not as expected so I thought I would ask.

The problem I am having seems to be with addslashes not properly
escaping this type of string "C:\test\foo.exe". Here is the scenario:

$email->body = "This is a test email. Testing c:\test\foo.exe";

When the $email object is later broke down and stored in the database
addslashes is done (as it should be) before the variable is stored.

If you check the database though, no slashes were added to the string.
The only way I can seem to get it to work as I thought it should, is to
do the following:

addslashes(str_replace("\", "\\", $body))

Then when you check the database you see the proper "This is a test
email. Testing c:\test\foo.exe".

The other example I have is with an object which looks similar to:

class login_handler
{

var last_ticket_subject;

   // ... (code truncated)

}

If I set the class's last_ticket_subject to "This is a test
c:\test\foo.com" later in the code, then do the following:

addslashes(serialize($login_handler))

and check the database, once again it didn't add any slashes. The only
way I can get it to add the slashes as I think it should, is to do the
following:

addslashes(str_replace("\", "\\", serialize($login_handler)))

I am doing something wrong (or did I misunderstand something) or is this
in fact a bug? I have tested it on PHP 4.2, 4.3.2, and 4.3.3 and the
behavior is exactly the same. If it isn't a bug, can someone clarify for
me why addslashes would be designed this way?

Jeremy Johnstone

• Thus wrote Jeremy Johnstone (jsjohnst@altdns.net):

$email->body = "This is a test email. Testing c:\test\foo.exe";

When the $email object is later broke down and stored in the
database
addslashes is done (as it should be) before the variable is stored.

If you check the database though, no slashes were added to the
string.

addslashes() is working properly. What you're experiencing is
the database servers' translation of '\' -> ''.

The documentation on addslashes explains this:
http://php.net/addslashes

You might want to check the documentation again as it does not say
anything about the db server translating \ into . This seems highly
illogical, because if thats the case then addslashes("This is Jeremy's
test of c:\test\foo.exe") would get corrupted when you strippedslashes
after you pulled it back out of the database. If this is the case, which
database servers translate this way? I will then make sure I go update
the documentation accordingly.

I am doing something wrong (or did I misunderstand something) or is
this
in fact a bug? I have tested it on PHP 4.2, 4.3.2, and 4.3.3 and the

btw, you should post these questions to the php-general list,
especially when you are in doubt if you're using the function
properly.

Actually I was quite sure I was using the function correctly, I said
that in case I misunderstood something in the documentation and thus
needed to update the documentation accordingly.