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

?>

Comment on this Question and Answer >>>

ASK A QUESTION

More forms PHP Questions

DYnamic Dropbox when I select a value it has to add a textbox to a specific position in the form how do I do it?? If I could change the dropbox in a textbox and make it add Textboxes depending on the number typed it would be even better but dont think th

What are magic quotes?

if i send values to database ,but in that table zeros is added ,how can i rectify the error

how to avoid the refresh or goback to submit the post values in database

PHP program to register students' record