What's wrong with this code?

[s3nzo]

This code don't accept name submitted with post method

$clean['name'] = @mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities(stripslashes($_POST['name']))); 

This one accepts it

$clean['name'] = htmlentities(stripslashes($_POST['name'])); 

So i assumed problem is with

@mysql_real_escape_string(); 

Can someone explain what's wrong?

[subzero]

At first line

$clean['name']
$clean[name]

[s3nzo]

Thanks SubZero i'll check that when i'm free

[khan]

why dont you use this function

function clean($val)
{
    $val = mysql_real_escape_string($val);
    $val = trim($val);
    $val = htmlentities($val);
    $val = stripslashes($val);

    return $val;
}