String Functions
addcslashes() treats NUL as a string terminator:
assert("any" === addcslashes("any\0body", "-"));
unless you order it backslashified:
assert("any\\000body" === addcslashes("any\0body", "\0"));
(Uncertain whether this should be declared a bug or simply that addcslashes() is not binary-safe, whatever that means.)
addcslashes
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
addcslashes — Quote string with slashes in a C style
Description
string addcslashes
( string $str
, string $charlist
)
Returns a string with backslashes before characters that are listed in charlist parameter.
Parameters
- str
-
The string to be escaped.
- charlist
-
A list of characters to be escaped. If charlist contains characters \n, \r etc., they are converted in C-like style, while other non-alphanumeric characters with ASCII codes lower than 32 and higher than 126 converted to octal representation.
When you define a sequence of characters in the charlist argument make sure that you know what characters come between the characters that you set as the start and end of the range.
Also, if the first character in a range has a higher ASCII value than the second character in the range, no range will be constructed. Only the start, end and period characters will be escaped. Use the ord() function to find the ASCII value for a character.<?php
echo addcslashes('foo[ ]', 'A..z');
// output: \f\o\o\[ \]
// All upper and lower-case letters will be escaped
// ... but so will the [\]^_` and any tabs, line
// feeds, carriage returns, etc.
?><?php
echo addcslashes("zoo['.']", 'z..A');
// output: \zoo['\.']
?>Be careful if you choose to escape characters 0, a, b, f, n, r, t and v. They will be converted to \0, \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t and \v. In PHP \0 (NULL), \r (carriage return), \n (newline), \f (form feed), \v (vertical tab) and \t (tab) are predefined escape sequences, while in C all of these are predefined escape sequences.
Return Values
Returns the escaped string.
ChangeLog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.2.5 | The escape sequences \v and \f were added. |
Examples
charlist like "\0..\37", which would escape all characters with ASCII code between 0 and 31.
Example #1 addcslashes() example
<?php
$escaped = addcslashes($not_escaped, "\0..\37!@\177..\377");
?>
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User Contributed Notesaddcslashes
stein at visibone dot com
13-Nov-2007 12:16
13-Nov-2007 12:16
Johannes
27-Oct-2007 02:34
27-Oct-2007 02:34
Be carefull with adding the \ to the list of encoded characters. When you add it at the last position it encodes all encoding slashes. I got a lot of \\\ by this mistake.
So always encode \ at first.
phpcoder at cyberpimp dot pimpdomain dot com
20-Jan-2005 09:35
20-Jan-2005 09:35
Forgot to add something:
The only time you would likely use addcslashes() without specifying the backslash (\) character in charlist is when you are VALIDATING (not encoding!) a data string.
(Validation ensures that all control characters and other unsafe characters are correctly encoded / escaped, but does not alter any pre-existing escape sequences.)
You can validate a data string multiple times without fear of "double encoding". A single decoding pass will return the original data, regardless of how many times it was validated.)
phpcoder at cyberpimp dot pimpdomain dot com
20-Jan-2005 08:02
20-Jan-2005 08:02
If you are using addcslashes() to encode text which is to later be decoded back to it's original form, you MUST specify the backslash (\) character in charlist!
Example:
<?php
$originaltext = 'This text does NOT contain \\n a new-line!';
$encoded = addcslashes($originaltext, '\\');
$decoded = stripcslashes($encoded);
//$decoded now contains a copy of $originaltext with perfect integrity
echo $decoded; //Display the sentence with it's literal \n intact
?>
If the '\\' was not specified in addcslashes(), any literal \n (or other C-style special character) sequences in $originaltext would pass through un-encoded, but then be decoded into control characters by stripcslashes() and the data would lose it's integrity through the encode-decode transaction.
ruben at intesys dot it
31-May-2004 06:51
31-May-2004 06:51
jsAddSlashes for XHTML documents:
<?php
header("Content-type: text/xml");
print <<<EOF
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
EOF;
function jsAddSlashes($str) {
$pattern = array(
"/\\\\/" , "/\n/" , "/\r/" , "/\"/" ,
"/\'/" , "/&/" , "/</" , "/>/"
);
$replace = array(
"\\\\\\\\", "\\n" , "\\r" , "\\\"" ,
"\\'" , "\\x26" , "\\x3C" , "\\x3E"
);
return preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $str);
}
$message = jsAddSlashes("\"<Hello>\",\r\n'&World'\\!");
print <<<EOF
alert("$message");
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, World!</h1>
</body>
</html>
EOF;
?>
21-Sep-2003 08:44
<?
function jsaddslashes($s)
{
$o="";
$l=strlen($s);
for($i=0;$i<$l;$i++)
{
$c=$s[$i];
switch($c)
{
case '<': $o.='\\x3C'; break;
case '>': $o.='\\x3E'; break;
case '\'': $o.='\\\''; break;
case '\\': $o.='\\\\'; break;
case '"': $o.='\\"'; break;
case "\n": $o.='\\n'; break;
case "\r": $o.='\\r'; break;
default:
$o.=$c;
}
}
return $o;
}
?>
<script language="javascript">
document.write("<? echo jsaddslashes('<h1 style="color:red">hello</h1>'); ?>");
</script>
output :
<script language="javascript">
document.write("\x3Ch1 style=\"color:red\"\x3Ehello\x3C/h1\x3E");
</script>
natNOSPAM at noworrie dot NO_SPAM dot com
18-May-2002 01:22
18-May-2002 01:22
I have found the following to be much more appropriate code example:
<?php
$escaped = addcslashes($not_escaped, "\0..\37!@\@\177..\377");
?>
This will protect original, innocent backslashes from stripcslashes.