How to keep slashes in Mysql update

[max101]

Hi All,

I in need of some advice. I am running a update from a form to a specific users unique id the id however is  not a int it has mixed letters and numbers abc/123 with the slash, when I run  the update the slash breaks the code and it cannot update, is there anyway I can keep it in there as I am unable to remove the slash. here is the update code:

WHERE id= {$id}";

[max101]

Quick version: Look for another way. I wrote a relationship function to merge tables.