Re: How do I display apostrophe in PHP generated form?

Hello, Maybe htmlentities => https://www.php.net/manual/fr/function.htmlentities.php Le dim. 28 nov. 2021 à 22:35, John <john.iliffe@iliffe.ca> a écrit : > I have an application where the user enters a name which is > subsequently passed to another PHP script for validation using JSON. > If the user's name is, eg O'Toole, then the initial PHP script accepts > it correctly, the JSON format passes it correctly and if I just do a > display of the received JSON block it is correct, but when I put it > into the <input> element of a form for validation everything to the > right of the ' gets dropped. > > I have tried addslashes() and that results in: 'O'Toole' --> 'O\' > > The specific lines of code: > > ------- > > echo $addrdec['address']['city']; <-- result of associative array > recovered correctly from JSON coding > > results in "St John's" > > ------- > > echo "<input type=text name=rcity id=rcity length=32 size=20 value='" > . addslashes($addrdec['address']['city']) . "'></input> > &emsp;"; > > results in display "St John\" > > Looking at the page source that resulted from this the value part of > the element (Firefox won't let me copy it directly): > > .... size="20" value="St John\" s'=""> > > > ------- > > and if I don't use addslashes the value becomes 'St John', truncating > the 's' following the apostrophe. Frankly, I would have expected a > syntax error if the ' were being used to close the literal but that > doesn't happen. > > Looking at the page source that resulted from this the value part of > the element (Firefox won't let me copy it directly): > > .... size="20" value="St John\" s'=""> > > How can I resolve this? > > Thanks in advance. > > John > ============ >