title: Real escape string and PDO
body: <p>I'm using PDO after migrating away from the <code>mysql</code> library. What do I use in place of the old <code>real_escape_string</code> function?</p>
  
  <p>I need to escape single quotes so they will go into my database and I think there may be a better way to handle this without add(ing) slashes to all my strings. What should I be using?</p>