Re: ECHO $variable

On 10/9/06, benifactor <snorris17@cox.net> wrote:

the way i posted worked fine with out either... he doesn't need to use these to format the way his output is displayed, he only needs to use the proper php syntax if i am correct.

But what if the string is edited to contain single quotes as well? Then your solution breaks anyway... Like Chris said, you should be using htmlentities for output... John W

----- Original Message ----- From: "Penthexquadium" <penthexquadium@gmail.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 1:41 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] ECHO $variable On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 00:23:00 -0700, "benifactor" <snorris17@cox.net> wrote:

you should try this... $saved_message_title = '1 Peter 5:7 "Cast all your cares on Him for He cares about you"'; ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Piggott (PHP)" <ron.php@actsministries.org> To: "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 11:39 PM Subject: [PHP] ECHO $variable

In one of my scripts I have <input type=text name="message_title" size=40 maxlength=80

value="<?echo

$saved_message_title;?>"> where $saved_message_title is 1 Peter 5:7 "Cast all your cares on Him for He cares about you" --- note the " When this is displayed on the screen $saved_message_title reads 1 Peter 5:7 I am assuming the " closes the value= How may I echo this to the screen and have the full text be displayed, not just 1 Peter 5:7 ? Ron

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His problem is in HTML, not PHP. Uses htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities() to convert special characters to HTML entities. The double quote will becomes "&quot;" so that it can be display correctly. -- Sorry for my poor English. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php