addslashes

addslashes

Quote string with slashes

string **addslashes** string $string

Returns a string with backslashes added before characters that need to be escaped. These characters are:

'``"``\

A use case of is escaping the aforementioned characters in a string that is to be evaluated by PHP:

addslashesVoorbeeld: Escaping Characters

<?php
$str = "O'Reilly?";
eval("echo '" . addslashes($str) . "';");
?>

The is sometimes incorrectly used to try to prevent . Instead, database-specific escaping functions and/or prepared statements should be used. addslashesSQL Injection

stringThe string to be escaped.

Returns the escaped string.

Voorbeeld: An example

<?php
$str = "Is your name O'Reilly?";

// Outputs: Is your name O\'Reilly?
echo addslashes($str);
?>

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