====== getQuery ======
{#JAPI Joomla.Framework Database JDatabase::getQuery #}

Returns the current value of the internal SQL query string (as set-up by [[JDatabase-setQuery|JDatabase->setQuery]].The string has HTML special characters escaped and will be surrounded by HTML <pre> tags so that it is suitable for output to web browsers in an error message, for example.

===== Syntax =====
string getQuery ()

===== Examples =====
<code php|Example>
$database =& JFactory::getDBO();
$database->setQuery( $sql );
echo 'The query is: ' . $database->getQuery();
</code>
would produce:
<code php|Result>
The query is: <pre>SELECT * FROM jos_users</pre>
</code>

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