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

dbx_escape_string

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5 <= 5.0.5, PECL dbx >= 1.1.0)

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 )

Escape the given string so that it can safely be used in an sql-statement.

Parameters

link_identifier: The DBX link object returned by dbx_connect()
text: The string to escape.

Return Values

Returns the text, escaped where necessary (such as quotes, backslashes etc). On error, NULL is returned.

Examples

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);
?>

See Also

dbx_query()