Re: [PHP] Complex escape string

[email protected] ("Craige Leeder")
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Why exactly are you doing this? While variable-variables can be of use
at times, I don't think this is one of them. How do you use this newly
created variable.

- Craige

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:20 PM, cyaugin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have this line of code:
>
>  $q = "This is the string that will go into the query:
>  {${mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['searchstring'])}}";
>
>  What happens then is the user supplies 'foo' as the search string, and I get
>  a debug notice "Undefined variable: foo". Why is it treating the value as an
>  identifier and how do I make it do what I actually want it to do? This is on
>  PHP5, latest release.
>
>
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