Re: Is there no one who can help me out there.

John, I had a similar problem when passing # from one page to another as an html anchor. What worked for me was separating the # in quotes as follows: echo "?id=" . $row[0] . "#" . strtolower($row[1]) . '">'; When I did this I had no problem passing the entire string without the end being interpreted as a comment. Rebecca

From: John Holcomb <john_6932php@yahoo.com> To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Is there no one who can help me out there. Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:29:21 -0700 (PDT) I have a text input field in my form. I need the user to be able to enter something like: Hello, I need # help. After which they click on a submit button. The succeeding page then takes this text and tries to display it and tries to store "Hello, I need # help" in a varchar field in a mysql table column. The mysql database is truncating the # sign and the text succeeding the # sign. Also, absolutly no text is being diplayed on the succeeding web page. I've tried using addslashes() and I was warned against using htmlentities(). Also, I'm not sure if I'm dealing with 2 issues: A mysql issue and a html issue. Or, am I dealing with one issue: A mysql issue or an HTML issue. I know think my problem is that when I pass text to another page with the # sign, it's interpreting it as a comment. Is their any way to somehow escape the # sign. Thank you, John __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ -- 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

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