I am new to DBI and MySQL in general. I am trying to take this hash and stores the keys in a MySQL database using DBI. 
$VAR14 = {
           'image_medium' => 'http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51
+p2cN2yIML._SL160_.jpg',
           'authors' => 'Tony Stubblebine',
           'publication_date' => '2007-07-18',
           'title' => 'Regular Expression Pocket Reference: Regular Ex
+pressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET (Pocket Refer
+ence (O\'Reilly))',
           'isbn' => '0596514271',
           'publisher' => 'O\'Reilly Media, Inc.',
           'image_small' => 'http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p
+2cN2yIML._SL75_.jpg',
           'url_amazon' => 'http://www.amazon.com/Regular-Expression-P
+ocket-Reference-Expressions/dp/0596514271%3FSubscriptionId%3D1VD4TGW1
+VSXT1RE5Y2G2%26tag%3Dws%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D1
+65953%26creativeASIN%3D0596514271',
           'pages' => '126'
         };

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When I try to add strings with quotes, I receive SQL syntax errors (i.e. the "Publisher" key and keys with "O'Reilly"). What is the best way to handle quotes in this scenario? This is how I am doing the insert 
            $insert = "INSERT into books (
                            id,
                            title,
                            authors,
                            isbn,
                            pages,
                            publisher,
                            publication_date,
                            image_small,
                            image_medium,
                            url_amazon,
                            createdAt) 
                        VALUES (
                            NULL,
                            '" . $hash{$key}{'title'} . "', 
                            '" . $hash{$key}{'authors'} . "',  
                            '" . $hash{$key}{'isbn'} . "',  
                            '" . $hash{$key}{'pages'} . "',  
                            '" . $hash{$key}{'publisher'} . "',  
                            '" . $hash{$key}{'publication_date'} . "',
+ 
                            '" . $hash{$key}{'image_small'} . "',  
                            '" . $hash{$key}{'image_medium'} . "',  
                            '" . $hash{$key}{'url_amazon'} . "',   
                        NULL)";          

            $sth = $dbh->prepare($insert);

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Thanks!

In reply to Best way to deal with quotes in string with DBI by ewhitt

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