Unable to quote table name in PDO with MSSQL

Question

I have to work with somebody's database for a game which sadly has a table named "User" or [dbo][User] and this can not be renamed. Now, I need to access this using PDO in PHP and when I use this query:

$query = "SELECT UserId AS INTUSERID FROM dbo.User WHERE YahooId = 'abcdef'";

it fails, as in nothing is fetched since "User" is a reserved keyword there. From the MS SQL Server I can do this as:

SELECT UserId AS INTUSERID FROM [GameName].[dbo].[User] WHERE YahooId = 'abcdef'

and it works. How should I prepare my query in PHP to make this execute? I have tried to put single quotes around table name but that has no effect. What is the correct way to use

[GameName].[dbo].[User] 

from PHP PDO as the table name ?

Update: This is how I am connecting:

try{
    $conn = new PDO("xxx.rds.amazonaws.com,1150;Database=xyz","admin","password");
    } catch(PDOException $e){
        echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
    }

Answer 1

Further to the discussion in the comments I am providing this so that the question has an answer. I thought square brackets would work fine within the php string used to define the query so I tested it out on my own code that connects to MS-SQL using PDO.

So the following should work...

$query = "SELECT UserId AS INTUSERID FROM dbo.[User] WHERE YahooId = 'abcdef'";

Side note - If your YahooId ever comes from a source that can be manipulated by a user (such as $_GET) you should research Prepared Statements with PDO...

$query = "SELECT UserId AS INTUSERID FROM dbo.[User] WHERE YahooId = ?;";

$statement= $db->prepare($query);

$statement->execute(array($userinput));