php - How can I remove slashes from strings?

Question

I am trying to do some PHP programming concepts and I am not aware of some in-build functions. So my doubt is:

In PHP, how to remove slashes from strings? Is there any function available in PHP for this??

e.g.

$string="people are using Iphone/'s instead of Android phone/'s";

Answer 1

You can do a number of things here, but the two approaches I would choose from are:

Use str_replace():

$string = "people are using Iphone/'s instead of Android phone/'s";
$result = str_replace('/','',$string);
echo $result;
// Output: people are using Iphone's instead of Android phone's

If the slashes are backward slashes (as they probably are), you can use stripslashes():

$string = "people are using Iphone\'s instead of Android phone\'s";
$result = stripslashes($string);
echo $result;
// Output: people are using Iphone's instead of Android phone's