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

Thank you. This has been the biggest help so far. But, if it's a user entered string is their anyway to do this without having to parse the string and looking for the # sign and then reconstructing the string. That would be very difficult to do. I would appreciate any comments you might have. Thanks again John --- Rebecca Donley <houserabbit@hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/