PHP Reference

dbx_escape_string

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)

dbx_escape_string -- Escape a string so it can safely be used in an sql-statement.

Description

string dbx_escape_string ( object link_identifier, string text)

dbx_escape_string() returns the text, escaped where necessary (such as quotes, backslashes etc). It returns NULL on error.

Example 1. dbx_escape_string() example


<?php

$link   = dbx_connect(DBX_MYSQL, "localhost", "db", "username", "password")

    or die("Could not connect");



$text = dbx_escape_string($link, "It\'s quoted and backslashed (\\).");

$result = dbx_query($link, "insert into tbl (txt) values ('" . $text . "')");

if ($result == 0) {

    echo dbx_error($link);

}

dbx_close($link);

?>