DatabaseConnection::escapeLike
public function DatabaseConnection::escapeLike
public DatabaseConnection::escapeLike($string)
Escapes characters that work as wildcard characters in a LIKE pattern.
The wildcard characters "%" and "_" as well as backslash are prefixed with a backslash. Use this to do a search for a verbatim string without any wildcard behavior.
For example, the following does a case-insensitive query for all rows whose name starts with $prefix:
$result = db_query( 'SELECT * FROM person WHERE name LIKE :pattern', array(':pattern' => db_like($prefix) . '%') );
Backslash is defined as escape character for LIKE patterns in DatabaseCondition::mapConditionOperator().
Parameters
$string: The string to escape.
Return value
The escaped string.
File
- includes/database/database.inc, line 983
- Core systems for the database layer.
Class
- DatabaseConnection
- Base Database API class.
Code
public function escapeLike($string) { return addcslashes($string, '\%_'); }
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