Replacing backslashes with forward slashes with str_replace() in php

Question

I have the following url:

$str = "http://www.domain.com/data/images\flags/en.gif"; 

I'm using str_replace to try and replace backslashes with forward slashes:

$str = str_replace('/\/', '/', $str); 

It doesn't seem to work, this is the result:

http://www.domain.com/data/images\flags/en.gif 

Answer 1

you have to place double-backslash

$str = str_replace('\\', '/', $str);