Re: An "escape special characters" problem

Jason Sheets wrote:

You're problem is that you are enclosing your value for your <option tags with single quotes ('), when you fetch the value from the database the single quote in 's ends the value='' assignment in your HTML. You can use echo "<option value=\"$algen\">$algen"; which will solve your single quote problem. You could also addslashes on your value and then stripslashes when you want to operate on it, example '<option value="' . addslashes($algen) . '">' . $algen . '">'; That doesn't seem to work. Here's how I'm typing my code. Do you see a problem here?

echo '<option value="' . addslashes($algen) . '">"' . ($algen) . '">\n'; or echo "<option value=\"$algen\">$algen\n"; or echo "<option value=\"$algen\">$algen>\n"; Bob