On Nov 2, 2011, at 15:09, Tomfox Wiranata wrote:
> i had to use backslashes...^^ it works now
>
> thanks for your time guys..appreciate it :)
Yes, well, if you're going to insert data into a page, you need to quote and
escape that data appropriately. In this context, you're trying to put a string
into JavaScript code. So you need to quote it (' or " around it), and you need
to escape any special characters in its content (', ", \, newline, carriage
return). That JavaScript is also inside an HTML attribute, so you need to apply
HTML escaping rules too.
This seems like a fairly common need -- to escape data for insertion into
JavaScript code -- so I assumed there would be a method in CakePHP to do that
for you. My quick search turned up $this->Js->value(). Actually getting that
embedded into an attribute of an HTML element like you're wanting to do,
however, seemed to be more difficult.
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