(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)
string quotemeta (string str)
string quotemeta
Returns a version of str with a backslash character (\) before every character that is among these:
. \\ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )
See also addslashes(), htmlentities(), htmlspecialchars(), nl2br(), and stripslashes().