Can somebody give me some general hints how to prevent
sql-injection?

I always go this way to build my queries:

function clean_mysql_string($string) {
                $clean_string = stripslashes($string);
                $clean_string = htmlentities(strip_tags(($clean_string)));
                $clean_string = trim($clean_string);
                $clean_string = rtrim($clean_string);
                $clean_string = mysql_real_escape_string($clean_string);
                return($clean_string);
}
        
                $searchstring = clean_mysql_string($_POST["searchstring"]);

                $query = "      SELECT id,uname,nickname, MATCH(uname,nickname) 
        
                                AGAINST('$searchstring' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AS mtch
                                FROM wlh_accounts
                                HAVING mtch > 0.001
                                ORDER BY mtch DESC";

                $results = mysql_query($query);

                while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
                                $values[] = array (
                                        "id"          => $row["id"],
                                        "uname"       => $row["uname"],
                                        "nickname"    => $row["nickname"],
                                        "mtch"        => $row["mtch"]
                                );
                        }

Is this safe??

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