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)
quotemeta
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
quotemeta — Opatřit lomítky metaznaky
Popis
string quotemeta ( string $str )Vrací verzi str se zpětným lomítkem před všemi výskyty následujících znaků:
. \\ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )
Viz také: addslashes(), htmlentities(), htmlspecialchars(), nl2br() a stripslashes().
quotemeta
George Adams
16-Feb-2006 08:57
16-Feb-2006 08:57
15-May-2001 03:41
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).
03-Apr-2001 12:04
qutemeta() is note for quoting meta tags, but is for quoting characters which can be misunderstanded by php or a database.
