Replacing 2 characters with with preg_replace

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Replacing 2 characters with with preg_replace

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Replacing 2 characters with with preg_replace

Jan 15th, 2008

Hi there

I'm using preg_replace to replace ' and " with a backslash in front of them so that I don't get problems with my MySQL INSERT queries. But at the moment I can only replace them with one charater as below:

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$unedited = $_POST['content'];
$content = preg_replace("/['|\"]/", "\'", $unedited);
$unedited = $_POST['content'];
$content = preg_replace("/['|\"]/", "\'", $unedited);

At the moment that just replaces both ' and " with ' which isn't ideal. Can anyone tell me how I'd be able to replace them with the respective charater. (e.g. ' would be replaced with \' and " would be replaced with\")