Help with str_replace

[refiking]

I am trying to remove all of the backslashes from a variable, but it's just not working.  here is what I have:

$new = str_replace('\', '', $original);
echo $new;

[smerny]

try putting '\\'

[salathe]

Backslash is a special character in PHP strings, see http://php.net/types.string#language.types.string.syntax.single

 

In your case, you would need:

 

$new = str_replace('\\', '', $original);
echo $new;