MySQL error when inserting data containing apostrophes (single quotes)?

Question

When I an insert query contains a quote (e.g. Kellog\'s), it fails to insert a record.

ERROR MSG:

You have an error in your SQL s

Answer 1

i did it as below-

in my case description field contains apostrophe(').

and here is code:

$description=mysql_real_escape_string($description);

"insert into posts set name='".$name."', address='".$address."', dat='".$dt."', description='".$description."'";

it solved my problem