How do I escape data that is going into a database?

There are various ways to do this. If you know for sure that you need to escape your data, one way is through using the addslashes function, like this:


<?php

$mydata = "hello I'm great"; 

$mydata = addslashes($mydata);

//now contains: hello I\'m great

?>

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