Re: An "escape special characters" problem

On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:58, Robert E. Harvey, M.D. wrote: > echo "<option value='$algen'>$algen\n"; > The problem arises when one of the strings from the table algen has an > apostrophe in it such as "Queen Anne's Lace" or "Lamb's > Quarters". It > displays properly in the form. What is passed to $HTTP_POST_VARS is: > "Queen Anne" or "Lamb". What you _see_ displayed is the 2nd $algen in the above line. The actual value that is passed when the form is submitted is in the 1st $algen. But because the value is delimited by single-quotes and your value itself contains single-quotes you have a problem -- look at your HTML source. > How can arrange my code to pass the entire strings to $HTTP_POST_VARS > and not just the truncated versions? apply htmlspecialchars() to the 1st $algen. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Occam's eraser: The philosophical principle that even the simplest solution is bound to have something wrong with it. */