How to escape strings in SQL Server using PHP?

Question

I\'m looking for the alternative of mysql_real_escape_string() for SQL Server. Is addslashes() my best option or there is another alternative funct

Answer 1

For the conversion to get the hexadecimal values in SQL back into ASCII, here is the solution I got on this (using the function from user chaos to encode into hexadecimal)

function hexEncode($data) {
    if(is_numeric($data))
        return $data;
    $unpacked = unpack('H*hex', $data);
    return '0x' . $unpacked['hex'];
}

function hexDecode($hex) {
    $str = '';
    for ($i=0; $i