Version: 1.0
Type: Function
Category: Databases
License: GNU General Public License
Description: small but usefull function to parse a var to be valid in a sql query-string.
function sql_parse($field,$is_string=0) { if(strlen(trim($field))==0) return "null"; if($is_string) { $field=chop($field); $field=str_replace("'","''",$field); $field="'".$field."'"; } return trim($field); } // so a query would look like this // $id=sql_parse($id); $name=sql_parse($name); $phone_number=sql_parse($phone_number); // $query = "insert into table1(id,name,phone_number) values ($id,$name,$phone_number)";