Re: HTML Escaping

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:43:29 -0400, John W. Holmes wrote: > Robb Kerr wrote: >> I've got a conditional button that needs to appear/hide on my page >> depending upon the contents of a field in my database. The button is an >> image and has a long URL and JavaScript for image rotation attached to it. >> Needless to say, the href is quite long and includes several "'" >> characters. My conditional works great but I want to know if there is an >> easy way to escape the whole href so that the "'" characters will not be >> seen as PHP quote marks. See below... >> >> <?php >> if ($recordset['field'] != "1") { >> echo '<a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" >> >> onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('PreviousPage','','/URL/ButtonName.gif',1)"><img >> src="/URL/ButtonName.gif" alt="Previous Page" name="Previous >> Page" >> width="150" height="20" border="0"></a>; >> ?> > > It looks like you're trying to echo a string that's delimited by single > quote marks, but I don't see a single quote at the end of the string. > Assuming this is what you want, though, to escape single quotes within > the string you're trying to echo, put a backslash \ character before them. > > <?php > if ($recordset['field'] != "1") { > echo '<a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" > > onMouseOver="MM_swapImage(\'PreviousPage\',\'\',\'/URL/ButtonName.gif\',1)"><img > src="/URL/ButtonName.gif" alt="Previous Page" name="Previous > Page" > width="150" height="20" border="0"></a>'; > ?> > > Alternatively, you can just use double quotes in your JavaScript > MM_swapImage() function... Thanx. That's the escape character I needed. But, I've choosen to use the style Brent suggested above. It'll be easier than remembering to escape every single quote character. -- Robb Kerr Digital IGUANA Helping Digital Artists Achieve their Dreams ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.digitaliguana.com http://www.cancerreallysucks.org