Escape a string so it can safely be used in an sql-statement dbx_error dbx_fetch_row dbx Functions PHP Manual 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() dbx_error dbx_fetch_row dbx Functions PHP Manual