Escapes a string to be used as a shell argument.
string $argument The argument that will be escaped:
string The escaped argument
public static function escapeArgument($argument) {
//Fix for PHP bug #43784 escapeshellarg removes % from given string
//Fix for PHP bug #49446 escapeshellarg dosn`t work on windows
//@see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43784
//@see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49446
if (defined('PHP_WINDOWS_VERSION_BUILD')) {
$escapedArgument = '';
foreach (preg_split('/([%"])/i', $argument, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE) as $part) {
if ('"' == $part) {
$escapedArgument .= '\\"';
}
elseif ('%' == $part) {
$escapedArgument .= '^%';
}
else {
$escapedArgument .= escapeshellarg($part);
}
}
return $escapedArgument;
}
return escapeshellarg($argument);
}