php man page for quotemeta

QUOTEMETA(3)								 1							      QUOTEMETA(3)

quotemeta - Quote meta characters

SYNOPSIS
       string quotemeta (string  $str)

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

PARAMETERS
	      o $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(3), addcslashes(3), htmlentities(3), htmlspecialchars(3), nl2br(3), stripslashes(3), stripcslashes(3), ereg(3), preg_quote(3).

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