Unknown Sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As mentioned in another reply, in MySQL all fields can have quotes regardelss of
type.  If you really need to tell, use this:

if(!is_numeric($value)) {
   $value = "'" . $value . "'"; 
}

> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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