mysql_real_escape_string() not working in cakePHP

Question

My query goes like this,

... ON (`Test`.`id` = `Form`.`close_`%)...

It throws error saying Syntax error or access violation: 1064 . I am using cakePHP. I tried using

$field_name='close_%';
Sanitize::clean(utf8_encode($field_name),array('encode' => false));

I tried even mysql_real_escape_string() also.

My column name is close_%

But still it didn't work. How to byepass the column name with % symbol in query using CakePHP?

Answer 1

The Sanitize functions are for dealing with data, not column names, and mysql_real_escape_string , which is surely an act of desperation here, is designed for the same thing.

What you want to do is specify your column as:

`close_%`

Be sure to put the entire column name inside the back ticks.

Honestly you should not have junk like this in your column names in the first place. It's just annoying.