Re: Need heavy duty character escaping

Hmm.... or just: $info = str_replace('$', '\$', $info); Seems to work so far, in conjunction with htmlentities. On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:21 PM, leam hall <leamhall@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm still pulling out some XML and putting it into different formats. One > issue I'm having right now is that one of the sections contains Linux > commands, with pretty much every special character possible. When trying to > write this so that section becomes a PHP string it chokes on the special > characters. > > Most notably $, but also { } and [ ]. I've tried htmlspeciachars and > addslashes, but need more. Using mysqli_real_escape_string seems to need a > DB connection. > > Do I need to regex this or is there a better way? > > Thanks! > > Leam > > -- > Mind on a Mission <http://leamhall.blogspot.com/> > -- Mind on a Mission <http://leamhall.blogspot.com/>