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# addslashes

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

addslashes -- Quote string with slashes

## Description

``string addslashes` (string str)`

Returns a string with backslashes before characters that need to be quoted in database queries etc. These characters are single quote (`'`), double quote (`"`), backslash (`\`) and NUL (the `NULL` byte).

> Note: magic_quotes_gpc is ON by default.

See also stripslashes(), htmlspecialchars(), and quotemeta().

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