<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >addslashes</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="addcslashes" HREF="function.addcslashes.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="bin2hex" HREF="function.bin2hex.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.addcslashes.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.bin2hex.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.addslashes" ></A >addslashes</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN89037" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >addslashes -- Quote string with slashes</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN89040" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >addslashes</B > ( string str)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns a string with backslashes before characters that need to be quoted in database queries etc. These characters are single quote (<TT CLASS="literal" >'</TT >), double quote (<TT CLASS="literal" >"</TT >), backslash (<TT CLASS="literal" >\</TT >) and NUL (the <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >NULL</B ></TT > byte). </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > <A HREF="ref.info.html#ini.magic-quotes-gpc" >magic_quotes_gpc</A > is ON by default. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.stripslashes.html" ><B CLASS="function" >stripslashes()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.htmlspecialchars.html" ><B CLASS="function" >htmlspecialchars()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.quotemeta.html" ><B CLASS="function" >quotemeta()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.addcslashes.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.bin2hex.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >addcslashes</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >bin2hex</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >