Re: form variables issue

Can you check the source code? are there values in source, but it is not displayed on the browser? <input type=text value=My Name is Richard name=first_name> check this code snippet <?php echo get_magic_quotes_gpc(); // 1 echo $_POST['lastname']; // O\'reilly echo addslashes($_POST['lastname']); // O\\\'reilly if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $lastname = addslashes($_POST['lastname']); } else { $lastname = $_POST['lastname']; } echo $lastname; // O\'reilly $sql = "INSERT INTO lastnames (lastname) VALUES ('$lastname')"; ?> Thanks Richard On 1/31/06, All U Want <alluwant@terra.es> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm sure it is a very simple question for you but I'm getting almost > crazy. > > I've got a simple form with several form objects, one of them is a > text field. After submitting the form if one of the form objects > hasn't been modified I will show the same form but keeping the data > previously introduced. My problem is the text field, I can't show any > special characters again, even if there was any space only the first > word is shown, etc. > > I've been playing with different function like urldecode, urlencode, > stripslashes, htmlspecialchars, etc. but couldn't show the same text. > > Do you know how I can fix this? > > > Thanks a lot, > David. > > Note that magic_quotes_gpc is enabled. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >