Re: Problem with special characters
| From: | Thargor | Date: | Thu, 08 Nov 2001 16:59:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Problem with special characters | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Hallo,
Thursday, November 08, 2001, 4:43:13 PM, you wrote:
> I have a mysql database that contains various data. I am using PHP
> to pull out the data and display it within a HTML form. I am having
> trouble with certain data that contains escaped characters.
> Example: field contains --> mr "John Smith"
> My PHP code is:
> echo "<td width=\"50%\"><input type=\"text\"
> name=\"name" . $rownum
> . "\" size=\"46\" value=\"" . $queryRow[name] .
> "\"></td>";
> The result displayed is --> mr
> What happened to "John Smith" ???
> I have tried the functions stripslashes and addslashes but still no
> luck.
try htmlentities();
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