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

I have been using this as an alternative of mysql_real_escape_string():

function htmlsan($htmlsanitize){
    return $htmlsanitize = htmlspecialchars($htmlsanitize, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
}
$data = "Whatever the value's is";
$data = stripslashes(htmlsan($data));