mysql - funny square characters added to the value when inserting it into table
- by stone
Hi,
I have a php script that inserts values into mySQL table
INSERT INTO stories (title) VALUES('$_REQUEST[title]);
I checked the values of my request variables before going into the table and it's fine.
But when I add title=john to the table for example,
I get something like this:
title = "[][][][]john"
and when I extract the value, it's a newline then john.
I have my columns set to utf-8, I tried swedish character set as well.
Note: I don't get this error when inserting values from the phpMyAdmin commandline