Re: my bugaboo.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Floyd Baker" <fbaker@olm1.com> > > Hello and thanks to all for the help on the magic quotes, etc. > It gives me a better handle on what I'm dealing with. > > Except for one more thing. > > When I bring back text from a field which contains a ', and try to apply it as > the value of an input box, it still truncates in the box. > > When I simply print $text, it prints out correctly as *Don't do this* . > When I make $text the default value of an input box, it shows as *Don*. > > If the slash is still in place, it reads *Don\'t* above the box and *Don\* in > the box. > > My bugaboo continues.. :-> > > Thanks again for any further advice. > > Floyd > That's a problem with HTML. example: <input type='text' name='textName' value='Don't do this'> Sees the ' in Don't as the signal for the end of the value string. I haven't come up with an automatic way to deal with this, but what I have done is in these lines (where there might be an apostrophe) make sure I use double quotes: <input type="text" name="textName" value="Don't do this"> or print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"textName\" value=\"Don't do this\">"; Of course, then you may have the same trouble with double quotes. To avoid that you can do ereg_replace("\"", "''", $text) -- that is, replace a double quote with two single quotes? I think, I've never bothered. Hope this helps somehow. Anna