afrikdeveloper

Hi everybody, i am a PHP newbie, i have a web development projet and i need to know and understand php properly for that projet. In php 5, magic_quotes_gpc() is deprecated and remove, what others function we can use to prevent sql injection. So this is a function that i want to use in my proccess of preventing sql injection, but get_magic_quotes_gpc() is deprecated. Is there another work around for this function. any tips and explaination will help. thanks /=======THIS IS THE FUNCTION FROM THE PHP MANUAL function quote_smart($value, $handle) { // Stripslashes if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $value = stripslashes($value); } // Quote if not integer if (!is_numeric($value)) { $value = "'" . mysqli_real_escape_string($value, $handle) . "'"; } return $value; } //=======END OF FUNCTION FROM THE PHP MANUAL