<?php
$str = "Hello world. (can you hear me?)";
echo quotemeta($str);
?>
The output of the code above will be:
Hello world\. \(can you hear me\?\)
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
quotemeta — 메타 문자를 인용
$str
)다음의 모든 문자 앞에 백슬래시 문자(\)를 덧붙인 str을 반환합니다:
str
입력 문자열.
메타 문자를 인용한 문자열을 반환합니다.
Note: 이 함수는 바이너리 안전입니다.
<?php
$str = "Hello world. (can you hear me?)";
echo quotemeta($str);
?>
The output of the code above will be:
Hello world\. \(can you hear me\?\)
Took me a while to realize this was NOT the command I wanted for escaping potentially harmful characters in a string that would be used as part of a system command. Instead, I needed either escapeshellarg() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellarg.php) or escapeshellcmd() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellcmd.php)
This function escapes characters that have special meaning in regular expressions. preg_quote() <http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php> has similar functionality, but is more powerful since it escapes more characters (including one user-specified character).