I'm not sure why
$string = $conn->escape_string($_POST["data"]);
has been downvoted into obvlivian, but it is the only thing that works if you're using the mysqli class.
For example
<?php
print "function output: " . mysqli_escape_string($_REQUEST["foo"]) . "\n";
print "method output: " . $mysqli->escape_string($_REQUEST["foo"]) . "\n";
?>
prints:
function output:
method output: bar
This is with php 7.0
mysqli::escape_string
mysqli_escape_string
(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
mysqli::escape_string -- mysqli_escape_string — Alias of mysqli_real_escape_string()
Description
This function is an alias of: mysqli_real_escape_string().
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Tom Cat ¶
5 years ago
Lawrence DOliveiro ¶
6 years ago
mysqli_escape_string is a shorter name than mysqli_real_escape_string and doesn’t seem to be deprecated, so you might as well save typing.
