RE: [PHP] Qoute problem

why not str_replace('"','|', $describe); ? this gotta work ... Cheers, Maxim Maletsky -----Original Message----- From: Tanya Brethour [mailto:brethour@ncsa.uiuc.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:17 AM To: Web master Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Qoute problem Let says I strip the slashes.. so it goes back to just normal qoutes.. and then do the str_replace("\"","|", $describe); $describe = stripslashes($describe); str_replace("\"","|",$describe); It doesnt replace the qoutes.. -Tanya On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Web master wrote: > My approach towards this problem was to parse the data before inserting > and before displaying. > Before inserting the data entered by user, do something like > str_replace($comments, "'","~") and do the same thing for " do a > different character like | and then insert it into database. > Do the reverse before displaying the data, it should fix your problem.. > > Tanya Brethour wrote: > > > Hi! I was hoping that someone could help me out. I am not positive if I > > understand whats going on.. so let me try to explain. > > > > This is a process to modify news articles in a MySQL database. > > > > (From the point after picking the article to modify) > > PHP Script #1: > > I grab everything from the database and stick it into the HTML form > > (textarea, text, etc). I allow the user to modify whatever they want. > > > > PHP Script #2: > > This script takes the new information and displays it to the user.. it is > > a preview of what it will look like with the changes. > > > > PHP Script #3: > > Updates the news article in the database. > > > > Now the problem I am having.. is that the description and content fields > > have qoutes in them. For example: > > Description: I like to run and walk. I love "smelly cheese." > > > > So.. when it tries to update the database. It will only store this as the > > description: > > I like to run and walk. I love\\ > > > > I know that its because the qoutes are not being escaped correctly.. and > > it seems as though it is escaping the escape. > > > > So my question is.. how can I keep my qoutes? > > > > Just FYI.. I am making the user enter in the description and content in > > html. So i cant just change the qoutes to HTMLTags because it would change > > my <P> and <a href=> etc. > > > > Below is an example of the code (shortened for an example): > > > > PHP Script #1: Editing description > > > > print' > > </textarea><br> > > Description:<br><textarea name=describe cols=40 rows=10>'; > > echo $info["description"]; > > print' > > </textarea><br>'; > > > > PHP Script #2: (preview changes) > > > > <input type=hidden name=describe value="<?php print $describe?>"> > > <b>Description:</b><br> > > <?php print $describe?> <p> > > > > PHP Script #3: (update database) > > $sql = "UPDATE news SET release_date='$date', title='$title', > > description='$describe', contact='$contact', > > content='$test', type='$type' > > WHERE news_id=$id"; > > $result = mysql_query($sql) > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -Tanya > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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