<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >dbx_escape_string</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="dbx functions" HREF="ref.dbx.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="dbx_error" HREF="function.dbx-error.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="dbx_query" HREF="function.dbx-query.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dbx-error.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dbx-query.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.dbx-escape-string" ></A >dbx_escape_string</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN18017" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0)</P >dbx_escape_string -- Escape a string so it can safely be used in an sql-statement. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN18020" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >dbx_escape_string</B > ( object link_identifier, string text)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >dbx_escape_string()</B > returns the text, escaped where necessary (such as quotes, backslashes etc). It returns NULL on error. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN18033" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >dbx_escape_string()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?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); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.dbx-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >dbx_query()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dbx-error.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dbx-query.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >dbx_error</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.dbx.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >dbx_query</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >