Very Weird Problem Continued

The following variable needs to be escaped before it can be submitted as an MySQL query. It seems that the \0 in this string is causing me the problem. I have tried several functions in an attempt to escape this variable. Anybody got any other suggestions. The resulting string should look like this: EBCO\\030774-006\\BUBBLER VALVE $variable = "EBCO\030774-006\BUBBLER VALVE"; Things I have tried so far that do not work. Every one of the following functions results in \030 being replaced with a weird character. echo addslashes($variable); echo str_replace("\","\\",$variable); echo mysql_escape_string($variable); Here is the result of all of the above functions ( notice weird character after EBCO and that all the functions successfully escape the second \ character in between the 6 and the B in BUBBLER): EBCO▒774-006\\BUBBLER VALVE James