The issue was a silly mistake, which was pointed out by Chris Haas in a comment, which was later removed.
When usingpg_escape_string
, one can omit the first argument, which is the connection to the database, for it to seem like it's working in my situation. I do not know if it is working properly in all cases and my guess is no, but it seems like it's working.
When usingpg_escape_literal
, the connection appears to be somewhat necessary, and the function returned an empty string without a connection argument. However, the following code
<?php
$conn = pg_connect("/* login details */");
$escaped = pg_escape_literal($conn, 'Hello world!');
pg_close($conn);
echo "Escaped: '".$escaped."'";
?>
produces the following output, which seems to be... well... at least not empty, to say the least.
Escaped: ''Hello world!''
It also appears to work if I connect to any database at all, without necessarily specifying the connection inpg_escape_literal
.
Thanks a bunch to Chris Haas for the clue.
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