Ed Curtis wrote:
I'm having some difficulty with quotation marks, both single and double, input via a textarea in a form.
Here's and example of text.
Trying out the "Special Character" thing.
Page 1 is the form.
Page 2 is the data shown back to the user. original POST data is not touched. NO stripslashes original typed text is show to the user by stripslashes($thistext) original POST data is transferred to next page via hidden input field without stripping slashes.
Page 3 posts the data to a MySQL database. original POST data is not touched. No stipslashes. Text gets cut off in database (Trying out the)
What exactly do I need to do to the text so that any quotation marks (single or double) get input into the database.
Let's say you have $_POST['text'] from the user.
To display the value back to the user with magic_quotes_enabled, you'd do this:
echo htmlentities(stripslashes($_POST['text']));
To put the value into a hidden form element, you'd do this:
<input type="hidden" name="text" value="<?=htmlentities(stripslashes($_POST['text']))?>">
Now, $_POST['text'] will come out correctly on Page 3. Since you seem to have magic_quotes_gpc enabled, you can put the value directly into your query.
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