How to escape apostrophe (') in MySql?

Question

The MySQL documentation says that it should be \\\'. However, both scite and mysql shows that \'\' works. I saw that and it works. What should I d

Answer 1

Possibly off-topic, but maybe you came here looking for a way to sanitise text input from an HTML form, so that when a user inputs the apostrophe character, it doesn't throw an error when you try to write the text to a SQL-based table in a DB. There are a couple of ways to do this, and you might want to read about SQL injection too, but a simple option in PHP is to use the htmlspecialchars() function which will convert all your apostrophes into ' which is possibly what you want to store anyway.