keep textarea input format after using mysql_real_escape_string to store

Question

I am using php5.3.6 and mysql 5.1.56 and CodeIgniter. Here is what I did.

1. Input some text in textarea, something like this:

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   what\'s this?

Answer 1

MySQL escapes the string, but when displaying the result back to you it will give you the same result as if it was unescaped.