Re: quotes

Heidi, to your input: addslashes() to your output: stripslashes() Hope this helps, Hugh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heidi Belal" <hmbelal@yahoo.com> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com>; "Egypt Developers" <egypt-developers@yahoogroups.com>; "Egypt Programmers" <egypt-programmers@yahoogroups.com>; "js-jive mailing list" <js-jive@yahoogroups.com>; "Php" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: [PHP] quotes > Dear All, > I'm facing a problem and can't figure out the solution > and would love anyones help. > the situation is this: > i have a form for users to fill, i take their entry > and enter it in the database, then i take it and > display it in a form so they can edit it. > the problem is this: > if uses enter double quotes my html gets mixed up and > considers the users quote to be the end of the output > value for the input field. > Example: > > <form> > <input type="text" value="myvalue"> > </form> > myvalue is a variable which is read from the DB and > contains a double quote now if > myvalue = this is a double quote " like this. > > the output html will look like this: > <input type="text" value="this is a double quote " > like this."> > > and the output like this: > this is a double quote > > and that's it..cause it took the double quote as the > end of the value field. > > now what do i do? how can i prevent that from > happing? > Thanks, > > > > ===== > Heidi Belal > www.code-corner.com > ICQ# 32127109 > > A bus stops at a bus station. > A train stops at a train station. On my desk > I have a work station... > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >