[wp-hackers] 60+ databases errors (in syntax) in latest CVS

Mark Shields laebshade at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 16:51:30 UTC 2004


Yeah, that was exactly it.  Now, for us noobs (re: me), are there any
chances of adding a control into the wp-config.php file creator to
where it will check to make sure only valid characters are entered?


On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:46:14 -0400, Mark Shields <laebshade at gmail.com> wrote:
> You know, I never would've caught that.  How embarassing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:45:09 -0400, Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org> wrote:
> > Mark Shields wrote:
> > > See the mosquito entry for details.
> > >
> > > http://mosquito.wordpress.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0000304
> > >
> >
> > I believe that the problem might be the use of a dash in your prefix.
> > Try using 'wp_' instead of 'wp-'. From the MySQL docs:
> >
> > <blockquote>
> > An identifier may be quoted or unquoted. If an identifier is a reserved
> > word or contains special characters, you must quote it whenever you
> > refer to it. For a list of reserved words, see section 10.6 Treatment of
> > Reserved Words in MySQL. Special characters are those outside the set of
> > alphanumeric characters from the current character set, `_', and `$'.
> > </blockquote>
> >
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