function DatabaseConnection::escapeLike

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 1053

Class

DatabaseConnection

Base Database API class.

Code

public function escapeLike($string) {
    return addcslashes($string, '\\%_');
}