Question

i am working in php. i want to write query like this:-

update user_account set university_name='St. Josed father's institute' 
where userId=5;

but this is creating error due to ‘s means it creating problem because of single quote ‘ .

please suggest me how can i handle this. currently i am right this directly St. Josed father’s institute but in my php code this is in variable
$university_name

so please suggest me how can i check and remove such type of problem.

Answer 1

$location = "St. Josed father's institute";
$location = mysql_real_escape_string($location);