addcslashes

Function • Params and return types changed in PHP 8.0

Quote string with slashes in a C style.

PHP 5
PHP 7
PHP 8.0
Improved
PHP 8.1
PHP 8.2-8.3
PHP 8.4
PHP 8.5
PHP 8.6

addcslashes Function synopsis

addcslashes(string $string, string $characters): string

Parameters

$string

Typestring

The string to be escaped.

$characters

Typestring

A list of characters to be escaped. If $characters 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.

Return value

Typestring

Returns the escaped string.

Changes to the addcslashes Function

PHP 8.0

  • Return type added: string
  • Parameter name of parameter #1 changed: $str to $string
  • Parameter type added for parameter #1 ($string): string
  • Parameter name of parameter #2 changed: $charlist to $characters
  • Parameter type added for parameter #2 ($characters): string
- addcslashes($str, $charlist)
+ addcslashes(string $string, string $characters): string

addcslashes Function Availability

PHP VersionAvailability
PHP 8.6Upcoming Release Yes
PHP 8.5Supported (Latest) Yes
PHP 8.4Supported Yes
PHP 8.3Security-Fixes Only Yes
PHP 8.2Security-Fixes Only Yes
PHP 8.1Unsupported Yes
PHP 8.0Unsupported Yes
PHP 7.4Unsupported Yes
PHP 7.3Unsupported Yes
PHP 7.2Unsupported Yes
PHP 7.1Unsupported Yes
PHP 7.0Unsupported Yes
PHP 5.6Unsupported Yes
PHP 5.5Unsupported Yes
PHP 5.4Unsupported Yes
PHP 5.3Unsupported Yes