Austin,

The only time you need to escape a character in a string, is when it would otherwise be miss interpreted. When you begin a string with a ' or a ", PHP will identify the next ' or " as the end of the string, as long as it matches the first character. In other words beginning a string with a ' will cause PHP to expect the next ' to mark the end of the string (same matching on the " character, if that's what you started with). If you begin your string with a ' (single quote) you can code as many " (double quotes) as you want between the first and end string character without having to escape them (\ character), conversely if you begin your string with " (double quote) you can use as many single quotes as you want between them.

If you find yourself having to begin a string with a double quote and you absolutely need to imbed a double quote in the middle of the string and don't want it to be miss interpreted as the end of the string simply precede it with the backslash, to escape it from being miss interpreted as the end of string.

On another note, the SQL language used by databases is not PHP, so to place SQL syntax in your program so that you can pass it to the SQL server, you should place it in a string. In this case, as you would suspect, your string should begin and end with a single quote or a double quote.

hope this helps,

Warren Vail

On 4/10/2011 5:23 PM, Austin Einter wrote:

Hi

I have a below string.

PHP, HTML, SQL

Want to convert it to

'PHP', 'HTML', 'SQL'

I tried to write a function to do it as below. If I print the function output it prints properly.

If same function output I use for SQL query as below I get warning.

Query: SELECT skillid FROM {resubmt_skills} WHERE resubmt_skills.skillname IN (%s)", $fSkill

Warning: SELECT skillid FROM resubmt_skills WHERE resubmt_skills.skillname IN (\'ITI\',\' PHP\'))) in C:\MyWeb6.20\wamp\www\livejobs1\sites\default\modules\resume_search\resume_search.module on line 140.

Looks it has extra forward slashes. How can I overcome this.

Thanks

Austin