Re: Thank you Rebecca

Glad to be of help John. Wish I could think of something a little more elegant. The # seemed like an odd choice to me for a comment line because it's a well used character in both html and common text. I'm surprised it hasn't given a lot of people trouble. Rebecca

From: John Holcomb <john_6932php@yahoo.com> To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Thank you Rebecca Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Excellent idea Rebecca. I guess I'll have to resort to this because no one else out there seems to have ever had this problem. You've been a big help. Thank you for your ideas. John --- Rebecca Donley <houserabbit@hotmail.com> wrote: What about writing a function to change all the # characters to something else (maybe something you would never see in the input) and then another to change them back again before entry into your db? I'm pretty new to PHP so I'm not sure what string functions are available but in ASP you could just use a "replace" function. Rebecca

From: John Holcomb <john_6932php@yahoo.com> To: Rebecca Donley <houserabbit@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [PHP] Is there no one who can help me

out there.

Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:48:29 -0700 (PDT) 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

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