Reference: What is a perfect code sample using the MySQL extension? [closed]

Answer 1

I decided to jump the gun and just put something up. It's something to start with. Throws an exception on error.

function executeQuery($query, $args) {
    $cleaned = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $args);

    if($result = mysql_query(vsprintf($query, $cleaned))) {
        return $result;
    } else {
        throw new Exception('MySQL Query Error: ' . mysql_error());
    }
}

function updateTablenameName($id, $name) {
    $query = "UPDATE tablename SET name = '%s' WHERE id = %d";

    return executeQuery($query, array($name, $id));
}

try {
    updateTablenameName($_POST['id'], $_POST['name']);
} catch(Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    exit();
}