PHP FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES
What is FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES in PHP?
Explanation
PHP FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES filter is used to add backslash in front of each predefined characters.
Such as,
single quote (')
double quote (")
backslash ()
NULL
Name: "magic_quotes"
ID-number: 521
Example :
<?php
$va1="hscripts.com is a hiox's website";
echo filter_var($va1, FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES);
?>
Result :
hscripts.com is a hiox's website
In the above example, the backslash() is added before the predefined character single quotes(') in the given string.