On Thursday 20 February 2003 20:26, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote:
> At 13:16 20.02.2003, Tom Rogers said:
> --------------------[snip]--------------------
>
> >Rec> Have simple but annoying issue, I want to display a string
> >within an
> >Rec> input field. This string contains ' & so when it's being display the,
> >Rec> anything after the ' is being left out. Here is the code I'm using:
> >
> >Rec> $string = str_replace("'", "''", $string);
> >Rec> $string = stripslashes($string);
> >Rec> echo "<input type=text name='value' size=20 value =
> > '$string'>";
> >
> >
> >Pass the string through htmlentities(); before you echo it.
>
> --------------------[snip]--------------------
>
> htmlentities won't work with single quotes, use addslashes:
Actually just (only) htmlentities() will do. See manual for options regarding
whether to encode single-quotes and double-quotes.
> "<input type='text' name='value' size='20' value='" .
> htmlentities(addslashes($string)) . "'>";
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