It's a MySQL issue, probably.
Addslashes() should take care of it, I think...
If not, find out how MySQL escapes # and use http://php.net/str_replace
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:36 PM
Subject: Help with escaping the # sign
> 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.
>
> Thank you,
>
> John
>
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