String Functions
PHP Manual

quotemeta

Quote meta characters

Description

string quotemeta ( string $str )

Returns a version of str with a backslash character (\) before every character that is among these:

. \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )

Parameters

str

The input string.

Return Values

Returns the string with meta characters quoted, or FALSE if an empty string is given as str.

Notes

Note: This function is binary-safe.

See Also

  • addslashes
  • addcslashes
  • htmlentities
  • htmlspecialchars
  • nl2br
  • stripslashes
  • stripcslashes
  • ereg
  • preg_quote