(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
quotemeta — Quote meta characters
Returns a version of str with a backslash character (\)
before every character that is among these:
stringThe input string.
Returns the string with meta characters quoted, or false if an empty
string is given as string.
Example #1 quotemeta() example
<?php
var_dump(quotemeta('PHP is a popular scripting language. Fast, flexible, and pragmatic.'));
?>The above example will output:
string(69) "PHP is a popular scripting language\. Fast, flexible, and pragmatic\."
Note: This function is binary-safe.