Glad to be of help John. Wish I could think of something a little more
elegant. The # seemed like an odd choice to me for a comment line because
it's a well used character in both html and common text. I'm surprised it
hasn't given a lot of people trouble.
Rebecca
>From: John Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [PHP] Thank you Rebecca
>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Excellent idea Rebecca. I guess I'll have to resort
>to this because no one else out there seems to have
>ever had this problem. You've been a big help. Thank
>you for your ideas.
>
>John
>
>
>--- Rebecca Donley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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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