note 7693 deleted from AddSlashes by jeroen

Also this may seem like trivial advice...: It's really important where to use addslashes() ! $str = "c:trickybackslashespath"; echo addslashes($str); ...won't escape the t at the beginning, effectively outputting c: rickybackslashespath because you already assigned the string containing a TAB _before_ using addslashes...! Correctly, the above should rather be $str = addslashes("c:trickybackslashespath"); echo $str; An alternative to this would be the usage of single quotes. Read the comment in the main string-functions section for more info on this.