What about writing a function to change all the # characters to something
else (maybe something you would never see in the input) and then another to
change them back again before entry into your db? I'm pretty new to PHP so
I'm not sure what string functions are available but in ASP you could just
use a "replace" function.
Rebecca
>From: John Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Rebecca Donley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [PHP] Is there no one who can help me out there.
>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:48:29 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Thank you. This has been the biggest help so far.
>
>But, if it's a user entered string is their anyway to
>do this without having to parse the string and looking
>for the # sign and then reconstructing the string.
>That would be very difficult to do.
>
>I would appreciate any comments you might have.
>
>Thanks again
>
>John
>
>
>--- Rebecca Donley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > John,
> > I had a similar problem when passing # from one page
> > to another as an html
> > anchor. What worked for me was separating the # in
> > quotes as follows:
> >
> > echo "?id=" . $row[0] . "#" . strtolower($row[1]) .
> > '">';
> >
> >
> > When I did this I had no problem passing the entire
> > string without the end
> > being interpreted as a comment.
> > Rebecca
> >
> >
> > >From: John Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: [PHP] Is there no one who can help me out
> > there.
> > >Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:29:21 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > >I have a text input field in my form. I need the
> > user
> > >to be able to enter something like: Hello, I need
> > #
> > >help. After which they click on a submit button.
> > The
> > >succeeding page then takes this text and tries to
> > >display it and tries to store "Hello, I need #
> > help"
> > >in a varchar field in a mysql table column. The
> > >mysql database is truncating the # sign and the
> > text
> > >succeeding the # sign. Also, absolutly no text is
> > >being diplayed on the succeeding web page. I've
> > tried
> > > using addslashes() and I was warned against using
> > >htmlentities(). Also, I'm not sure if I'm dealing
> > >with 2 issues: A mysql issue and a html issue. Or,
> > am
> > >I dealing with one issue: A mysql issue or an HTML
> > >issue.
> > >
> > >I know think my problem is that when I pass text to
> > >another page with the # sign, it's interpreting it
> > as
> > >a comment. Is their any way to somehow escape the
> > #
> > >sign.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > >John
> > >
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