Re: Special Characters in a String for Output
| From: | Bastien Koert | Date: | Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:44:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Special Characters in a String for Output | ||
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, David Stoltz<Dstoltz@shh.org> wrote:
> I have:
>
> $goalString = "<p align=left>Goals Entered By
> ".$mymanager."</p><p>On
> ".$when.":</p><p align=left>".$mygoal."</p>";
>
> Which outputs in this <A> tag:
>
> <a href="#" onmouseover="applyDMXTooltip(this,'<?php echo
> $goalString;
>
> ?>','normal','linear','mouse','out',1,1,'mouseout','yellow',false,'','',
> 0,0,'auto','auto','auto','auto')">....
>
> But if there are double or single quotes in any of the $goalString, it
> messes up the output.
>
> I know this is a simple fix, but I'm not sure how to fix it since I'm
> new to PHP...
>
> I've tried addslashes, etc - but can't get it to work right...
>
> Is there an easy way to escape ALL special characters that would cause
> this output to fail?
>
> Thanks!
>
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use htmlentities
<?php echo htmlentities($goalString); ?>
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Bastien
Cat, the other other white meat