Description

Format input so it can be safely used as a delimited identifier in a query. Identifiers are objects such as table or column names.

The format returned depends on the database type being used.

Delimited identifiers are known to generally work correctly under the following drivers:

InterBase doesn't seem to be able to use delimited identifiers via PHP 4. They work fine under PHP 5.

Parameter

Return value

string - the formatted string

Note

This function can not be called statically.

Function available since: Release 1.6.0

Example

<?php
// Once you have a valid DB object named $db...
$sql = 'SELECT ' . $db->quoteIdentifier('company name')
       . ', address FROM clients';

$res =& $db->query($sql);
?>

See

quoteSmart(), escapeSimple()