Hi,

One of the user's using the site that I work on put in some text containing a % character into a query that used quote_smart. It produced the mysql error Query is empty. I have since used ereg_replace to replace the % sign with the html equivalent. Just curious if there is a better way to do this. The site uses PHP 4.

Using ereg_replace() or preg_replace() will work just fine, but they are both designed for use of regular expressions. If you just want to replace a characture, you can use a more efficient method of str_replace() which is better if you don't require regex. Another tip is that you can pass an array of charactures for the needle.