The infamous HTML quotes Re: [PHP] Double quotes in form fields and submitting them

Sorry Miguel, it's the HTML entities nonsense again. It displayed as \ on my browser, but the HTML source code indicated otherwise. Thus, if I entered "foobar", it shows up as \ but the HTML source shows. <input type="text" name="realName" value="\"foobar\""> So value="\" was the culprit, so you're original solution was in the right direction. stripslashes() itself wouldn't work because the HTML source would be value=""foobar"" and on in HTML, only the first two double quotes count. The solution was this, which apparently has been discussed many times before. stripslashes(htmlentities($HTTP_POST_VARS["realName"])); or stripslashes(htmlspecialcharacters($HTTP_POST_VARS["realName"])); Thanks for your help in leading me to the right direction. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miguel Cruz" <mnc@stoic.net> To: "webapprentice" <webapprentice@onemain.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Double quotes in form fields and submitting them > That's a little odd; something else must be going on. Can you provide some > more code, and, preferably, a pointer to a live example? > > miguel > > On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, webapprentice wrote: > > > Hi, > > "foobar" becomes simply \ > > > > I've lost foobar AND the double quotes. Is there a way to keep them all? > > > > --Stephen > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Miguel Cruz" <mnc@stoic.net> > > To: "webapprentice" <webapprentice@onemain.com> > > Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 7:49 PM > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Double quotes in form fields and submitting them > > > > > > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, webapprentice wrote: > > > > I have a form with a text field, say userName. > > > > I put a value in that has double quotes (i.e. "foobar") and submit this > > form. > > > > > > > > On output I have this: > > > > <?php echo $HTTP_POST_VARS["userName"]; ?> > > > > > > > > The output ends up being a \. > > > > > > The quotes go away, or they just get a backslash before them? If the > > > latter, try <?= stripslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS['userName']) ?> > > > > > > miguel > > > > > > > >