WebMaster View – special characters http://www.webmasterview.com/tag/special-characters/ Master the Web Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:20:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://media.webmasterview.com/logo/icon.png WebMaster View – special characters http://www.webmasterview.com/tag/special-characters/ 50 50 Master the Web What an apostrophe can do to your site? http://www.webmasterview.com/2009/05/apostrophe-hack/ http://www.webmasterview.com/2009/05/apostrophe-hack/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 18:14:28 +0000 Syam Kumar R http://www.webmasterview.com/?p=3 you'llHTML Special Character #39 – The Apostrophe: In this article, Thomas Shaw shows the screenshots of different job sites just after entering the word you’ll into search forms.

If you do not encode special characters in web forms, you run the risk of breaking the search query or the ability to insert malicious code into the database.

Tip: In PHP, always use mysql_real_escape_string function to sanitize data.

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