addslashes()

addslashes() — Quote string with slashes.

addslashes() — 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)

The addslashes is sometimes incorrectly used to try to prevent SQL Injection. Instead, database-specific escaping functions and/or prepared statements should be used.

Inputs: string: The string to be escaped.

Returns: Returns the escaped string.