mysql_real_escape_string() question

From: tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx (tedd)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:06:45 -0400

Hi gang:

In one of my snip-its, namely:

http://xn--ovg.com/pdf

I was generating a pdf document after the user filled in a form. I had been cleaning the user input by using --

$name = mysql_real_escape_string($name);

-- even though I wasn't using MySQL (the code was a cut-paste from some other code I had).

However, everything worked!

But, a couple of days ago it suddenly stopped working. Now, I get the following error:

Warning: mysql_real_escape_string(): Access denied for user 'nobody'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in ...

When I comment-out the offending statement, it runs. I replaced the statement, but wonder what happened -- when did using mysql_real_escape_string() require a password?

What's up with that? Any ideas as to what happened?

tedd
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