Problem with "\" (backslash) character

hi.

i want to use str_replace in my page with the following code

echo = str_replace("Z:\", "/images/", $row['sofname']);

PHP:

witch Z:\ is the local path of image folder (network drive) and i want to replace it with "/images/". But in PHP the \ it's used for another purpose and it's not working.
How i can use this character inside the str_replace?

thanks in advance.

 

You need to escape the backslash by adding another backslash in front of it.

 
<?php
$string = "Z:\\path\sub";
$replaced = str_replace('Z:\\', '/images/', $string);
var_dump($replaced);
?>
 

PHP:

Tested code, works.