Re: Problem with special characters

There is a solution posted on the original thread. PHP already has functions to deal with this problem. str_replace is a waste of time. Steve "Natalie Leotta" <LeottaN@ims.nci.nih.gov> wrote in message news:7546CB15C0A1D311BF0D0004AC4C4B0C02070F76@exchng.ssims.nci.nih.gov... > I would recommend that you try something like str_replace and replace all of > the double quotes with nothing. You'll probably need to put a slash in > front of the quote in there, but I think it should work. > > Good luck! > > -Natalie > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Don [SMTP:don@lclcan.com] > > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:14 AM > > To: php-db list > > Subject: [PHP-DB] Problem with special characters > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a mysql database that contains various data. I am using PHP to > > pull out the data and display it within a HTML form. I am having trouble > > with certain data that contains escaped characters. > > > > Example: field contains --> mr "John Smith" > > > > My PHP code is: > > echo "<td width=\"50%\"><input type=\"text\" > > name=\"name" . $rownum . "\" > > size=\"46\" value=\"" . $queryRow[name] . > > "\"></td>"; > > > > The result displayed is --> mr > > > > What happened to "John Smith" ??? > > > > I have tried the functions stripslashes and addslashes but still no luck. > > > > Can anyone help? > > > > Thanks, > > Don