Re: OT? passing text variables through html forms.

Hi Travis! On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Travis Ruthenburg wrote: > > <? > $var = "This is 'a' test"; > <input type='hidden' name='name' value='$var'> > ?> try <input type='hidden' name='name' value='<?=rawurlencode($var)?>'> or <? echo "<input type='hidden' name='name' value='" . rawurlencode($var)."'>"; ?> so on AFAIK ' and " are not allowed in urls, so they will be translated and I expect PHP to decode it as any url-encoded content, or you may call rawurldecode() on the other end. If you just want to get rid of slashes use addslashes() instead, or you can selectively escape a set of characters with addcslashes(). -- teodor