[SOLVED] comma's in text area breaking my queries

[calabiyau]

I'm making a blog where I can type into a text area, submit the form and process it by inserting it into my database.  Problem is if my blog entry has any apostrophe's in it it stops the query from processing.  Anyone can tell me why it is doing this and what to change to stop it from happening?

 

include('../connections.php');

//soft string is the text area variable posted

$softstring = $_POST['softstring'];
$new_page = $_POST['new_page'];


$query = "INSERT INTO ".$new_page." VALUES
	(' ','$softstring')";
if (mysql_query($query, $connect))
{
echo "<p>code inserted into".$new_page."</p>";
}

[Jessica]

http://php.net/mysql_real_escape_string