One thing that I hate about documentation at times (when you're a beginner) is how it doesn't really describe things in english. Would anyone mind translating this documentation for me? I'd like to know how exactly this makes things harder for a hacker to insert characters.
Also, if this is the case, how would a hacker try to insert characters?
解决方案
The function adds an escape character, the backslash, \, before certain potentially dangerous characters in a string passed in to the function. The characters escaped are
\x00, \n, \r, \, ', " and \x1a.
This can help prevent SQL injection attacks which are often performed by using the ' character to append malicious code to an SQL query.