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<h1 class="refname">ingres_escape_string</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PECL ingres >= 2.1.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">ingres_escape_string</span> — <span class="dc-title">Escape special characters for use in a query</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.ingres-escape-string-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ingres_escape_string</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$link</code></span>
, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$source_string</code></span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
<span class="function"><strong>ingres_escape_string()</strong></span> is used to escape certain
characters within a string before it is sent to the database server.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.ingres-escape-string-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">link</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The connection link identifier
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">source_string</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The source string to be parsed
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</dd>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.ingres-escape-string-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns a string containing the escaped data.
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<p><strong>Example #1 Escape special characters for use in a query</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$link </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">ingres_connect</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$database</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$user</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$password</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$last_name </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"O'Connor"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sql </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">sprintf</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"select * from user_profile where up_last = '%s'"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">ingres_escape_string</span><span style="color: #007700">( </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$link</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$last_name</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">ingres_query</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$link</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sql</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />while (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$user </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">ingres_fetch_object</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result</span><span style="color: #007700">))<br />{<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$user</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">up_first </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<BR/>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">ingres_commit</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$link</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">ingres_close</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$link</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.ingres-escape-string-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ingres-query.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ingres_query()</a> - Send an SQL query to Ingres</span></li>
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