RE: [PHP-DB] To quote or not to quote?

I might be wrong, but I think you can always use quotes, either numeric or strings. -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Doyle [mailto:doylep@eecg.toronto.edu] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:37 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] To quote or not to quote? I guess this is mostly a MySQL question, but perhaps PHP has a solution... I would like a foolproof way to determine whether a data value needs to be quoted. Numeric data doesn't need quotes, but string data does. I could use mysql_field_type and check if it's integer, float, double, real, etc., but this seems fragile. I could easily miss one, or a new version of MySQL could add a new one. So how can I get the equivalent of a "mysql_needs_quotes" function? -- Patrick Doyle doylep@eecg.utoronto.ca -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net