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# dbx_escape_string

(no version information, might be only in CVS)

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().

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