addslashes()

addslashes() — Quote string with slashes.

Built-in function of PHP 8.5. The manual lists it as available in PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8. This page is the reference card: signature, parameters and return value, plus the changelog and the example the manual provides.

What it does

Returns a string with backslashes added before characters that need to be escaped. These characters are: single quote (') double quote (") backslash (\) NUL (the NUL byte)

Signature

addslashes(string $string): string

Parameters

Return value

Returns the escaped string.

Example

A runnable snippet:

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

See also

stripcslashes(), stripslashes(), addcslashes(), htmlspecialchars(), quotemeta()

All PHP 8.5 built-in functions

Reference card built from the PHP manual page addslashes() (PHP documentation, CC BY 3.0). The page is generated from the manual, so the wording of the parameter and return value text follows php.net.