Re: Display strings with single quotes

> Thursday, February 20, 2003, 9:34:03 PM, you wrote: > Rec> Hi all, > > Rec> Have simple but annoying issue, I want to display a string within an > Rec> input field. This string contains ' & so when it's being display the, > Rec> anything after the ' is being left out. Here is the code I'm using: > > Rec> $string = str_replace("'", "''", $string); > Rec> $string = stripslashes($string); > Rec> echo "<input type=text name='value' size=20 value = '$string'>"; > > Rec> Thanks > Rec> Dave > > > You could also try > > echo '<input type="text" name="value" size="20" > value="'.$string.'">'; > which would be more politically correct :) Good point. You'll still run into problems if $string has double quotes within it, though. So the original suggestion of using htmlentities() still applies. ---John Holmes...