Re: addslashes Question

This seems to be more of a HTML problem. Form fields simply can´t print out ". You need to change the " to &quot; in order for it to appear. This can be done using the function htmlspecialchars(): http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php In your case: <?php echo htmlspecialchars("$desc1"); ?>"> You can test these two things to see the difference: 1. <input type="text" name="name" value="this has a &quot;"> 2. <input type="text" name="name" value="this does not have a ""> // Tobias ""Jeff Oien"" <jeff@webdesigns1.com> wrote in message news:NDBBJKNCILKDCEGAJBAOIEBGDIAA.jeff@webdesigns1.com... > I have a form to modify a record in a MySQL database. > The record contains this: > 3" Brush > The code in question is like this: > while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > $desc1 = $row['desc1']; > ------ > <input type="text" name="desc1" value="<?php echo > "$desc1"; ?>"> > > I've tried using addslashes to the variable in various ways and it > always returns: > 3\ > What am I doing wrong? Sorry this is probably the 1000th time > this has been asked. > Jeff Oien > > -- > 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 >