FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES constant in PHP

PHP Online Training

45 Lectures 9 hours

Malhar Lathkar

More Detail

PHP in Telugu

43 Lectures 5.5 hours

Vijay Kumar Parvatha Reddy

More Detail

Redis and PHP

22 Lectures 40 mins

Skillbakerystudios

More Detail

The FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES constant performs the addslashes() function to a string. It adds backslashes in front of predefined characters i.e. single quote ('), double quote ("), backslash (\), NULL.

Return

The FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES constant does not return anything.

Example

 Live Demo

<?php
   $var = "Here's the string!!";
   var_dump(filter_var($var, FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES));
?>

Output

The following is the output.

string(20) "Here\'s the string!!"

George John

Updated on 27-Jun-2020 08:34:08

• Related Questions & Answers
• PHP Magic Methods
• FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN constant in PHP
• FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL constant in PHP
• FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT constant in PHP
• FILTER_VALIDATE_INT constant in PHP
• FILTER_VALIDATE_IP constant in PHP
• FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP constant in PHP
• FILTER_VALIDATE_URL constant in PHP
• FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL constant in PHP
• FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED constant in PHP
• FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT constant in PHP
• FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT constant in PHP
• FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS constant in PHP
• FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING constant in PHP
• FILTER_SANITIZE_STRIPPED constant in PHP