dbx_escape_string

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5 <= 5.0.4)

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);
?>

See also dbx_query().