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ingres_escape_string

(PECL ingres >= 2.1.0)

ingres_escape_stringEscape special characters for use in a query

Description

string ingres_escape_string ( resource $link , string $source_string )

ingres_escape_string() is used to escape certain characters within a string before it is sent to the database server.

Parameters

link

The connection link identifier

source_string

The source string to be parsed

Return Values

Returns a string containing the escaped data.

Examples

Example #1 Escape special characters for use in a query

<?php
$link 
ingres_connect($database$user$password);

$last_name "O'Connor";

$sql sprintf("select * from user_profile where up_last = '%s'"ingres_escape_string$link$last_name));

$result ingres_query($link$sql);

while (
$user ingres_fetch_object($result))
{
  echo 
$user->up_first '<BR/>';
}

ingres_commit($link);

ingres_close($link);

?>

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