php string escaping like python's “”“ ”“”?

Question

Hi I was wondering if there is an easy way to escape strings in php.

In python I use \"\"\" \"\"\", and everything between there is escaped. so when using special c

Answer 1

There are various functions depending on what you want to escape.

If you are using a lot of double quotes, for example with html, you can wrap the string in single quotes to prevent having to escape.

$string = 'no escape needed';

The same goes the other way

$string = "I'd rather be gaming";

Then you have a couple of functions used mostly for escaping user input:

addslashes() that will escape quotes
htmlspecialchars() will 'escape' html codes
mysql_real_escape_string() for escaping mysql input