Re: my bugaboo.

If replacing " characters for output to html, don't replace them with '' (two single quotes), replace with the magic value &quot; (including the semicolon), which is a special html entity that means "put a quotation mark here" Search google for html entities for more. Gfunk - http://www.gfunk007.com/ I sense much beer in you. Beer leads to intoxication, intoxication to hangovers, and hangovers to... suffering. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anna" <programmer@samaranet.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >