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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);
?>

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