Re: " " in a Variable

From: Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 03:42:43 +0000
Subject: Re: " " in a Variable
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Try using htmlentities() to convert the characters to the html entities that can be stored and displayed. http://www.php.net/htmlentities Jason Dimitri Marshall wrote:
Sorry, what I mean is... I have a field in a form where users input text. If the user inputs something like: Hi there, "this is a quote" and you should know it. Then only... <Hi there, > get's inserted because of the double quotes. Is that more clear? Dimitri Marshall "Chris Shiflett" <shiflett@php.net> wrote in message news:20031203033701.81274.qmail@web14307.mail.yahoo.com...
--- Dimitri Marshall <webmaster@dyntdesign.com> wrote:
how do you either prevent users from being able to input " " in a field or make it so that it doesn't affect the code?
     
Can you give an example of affecting the code? You can store spaces in variables just fine. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security Handbook
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