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@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 
 <h1>Escaping Queries</h1>
 <p>It's a very good security practice to escape your data before submitting it into your database.
-CodeIgniter has two functions that help you do this:</p>
+CodeIgniter has three methods that help you do this:</p>
 
 <ol>
 <li><strong>$this->db->escape()</strong> This function determines the data type so that it
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@
 Most of the time you'll use the above function rather than this one. Use the function like this:
 
 <code>$sql = "INSERT INTO table (title) VALUES('".$this->db->escape_str($title)."')";</code></li>
+
+<li><strong>$this->db->escape_like_str()</strong>  This method should be used when strings are to be used in LIKE
+conditions so that LIKE wildcards ('%', '_') in the string are also properly escaped.
+
+<code>$search = '20% raise';<br />
+$sql = "SELECT id FROM table WHERE column LIKE '%".$this->db->escape_like_str($search)."%'";</code>
+
 </ol>