use escape character in like query mysql

Question

In front-end I show list of products and vendor name to the user with search option. In that product list having the forward{/} and back slash'\'. If user can using only with '/' or '\'. It is not working. It will escaping the double quotes{"} or single quotes{'} next to the back slash '\'. Using Ajax for fetch the data from database. How to handle this scenario?

Here I am using Laravel MySql for backend:

public function productSearch(Request $request)
    {
         $products= Products::whereLike(['product', 'vender.name'], $request->filterText)->get();
         return $products;
    }

Answer 1

Try to pass the text to this function:

$str = addslashes($str);