On 10/9/06, benifactor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the way i posted worked fine with out either... he doesn't need to use these
to format the way his output is displayed, he only needs to use the proper
php syntax if i am correct.

But what if the string is edited to contain single quotes as well?
Then your solution breaks anyway...

Like Chris said, you should be  using htmlentities for output...

John W

----- Original Message -----
From: "Penthexquadium" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] ECHO $variable


> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 00:23:00 -0700, "benifactor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > you should try this...
> >
> > $saved_message_title = '1 Peter 5:7 "Cast all your cares on Him for He
> > cares about you"';
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ron Piggott (PHP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 11:39 PM
> > Subject: [PHP] ECHO $variable
> >
> >
> > > In one of my scripts I have
> > >
> > > <input type=text name="message_title" size=40 maxlength=80
value="<?echo
> > > $saved_message_title;?>">
> > >
> > > where
> > >
> > > $saved_message_title is 1 Peter 5:7 "Cast all your cares on Him for He
> > > cares about you"
> > > --- note the "
> > >
> > > When this is displayed on the screen $saved_message_title reads
> > >
> > > 1 Peter 5:7
> > >
> > > I am assuming the " closes the value=
> > >
> > > How may I echo this to the screen and have the full text be displayed,
> > > not just 1 Peter 5:7 ?
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
> >
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> His problem is in HTML, not PHP.
>
> Uses htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities() to convert special characters
> to HTML entities. The double quote will becomes "&quot;" so that it can
> be display correctly.
>
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