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

First, thank you for the very prompt reply; your solution works. I have always found this list to be very helpful and friendly and you have continued the tradition. But, I don't completely understand why this was necessary. To me, it looks like a simple PHP echo command so why would I need to escape it at this point. There was a problem earlier in this project with data passed by JSON and I had to use htmlspecialchars() to relay the JSON data to the next script but that was the reverse of what I am doing here. I had seen htmlentities() (and htmlspecialchars() which is noted as equivalent in the documentation) in my research but it didn't seem appropriate because I was considering this as an echo function. What am I failing to see? Regards, and thanks again. John ============= On Sun, 2021-11-28 at 22:47 +0100, Glash Gnome wrote: > 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. > > > > > > 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 > > ============