Posted by Norman Peelman on 08/13/05 04:21

"Ant" <nospam@allthanks.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit of a newbie to php.
>
> I have some values that I'm getting via the post method which I want to
> include in an sql statement - the problem is I need to enclose the value
in
> "'s but I dont know how.
>
> e.g $id = $_POST["id"];
>
> so, if $id = monkey I want to turn it into "monkey"
>
> Any help much appreciated - I'm sure it's something obvious and I'm just
> being thick.
>
>

Let us know how you worked it out as someone might have even a better
way...

Norm
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