quotemeta

(PHP 3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)

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:
. \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )

Note: This function is binary-safe.

See also addslashes(), htmlentities(), htmlspecialchars(), nl2br(), and stripslashes().