How to secure my my-sql database

Question

Hello. I would like to know, how can I secure my database to prevent it from dropping a table or truncate it. I want to be able to do such things after logging into myPHP admin, but I don't want users of my webpage to be able to do it.
My php code looks like this:
require_once('connect.php'); /* Script that will connect to my database and saves the conection into variable $connection */
$input = $_POST['data']; /* Getting user's input - raw text */
$query = "INSERT INTO 'list' (thing) VALUES '$data'";
mysqli_query($connection, $query);
The problem is, what would happen if a user inputs something like this:
Trololol'"; DROP TABLE 'list';
Because thefinal query is this:
INSERT INTO 'list' (thing) VALUES 'Trololol';
DROP TABLE 'list';
Is there any handy function to check for these hidden keywords or any permission system for the table?

Answer 1

Prepared statements are to prevent these kind of sql injections. And it should be basic knowledge of mysql
https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_prepared_statements.asp

Answer 2

prepared statements

Answer 3

Can you please explaint further?

Answer 4

You can use htmlspecialchars and mysqli_real_escape_string but I would recommend using prepared statements.