--- j0hncage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], James Keeline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <input type="text" name="beltsize" value="<?php echo > htmlentities($beltsize);> ?>"> > > you should have better success. > > > > James > > > > Looks like that did the trick very nicely, James. Thank you very much. > Is there any reason why a person shouldn't use that approach on each > update field to help ensure data integrity? (Just thinking that if > somehow another foot (') or inch (") character found it's way in there > on an update, I could be looking at the same thing somewhere else). > > Guess if there's no downside to the approach above, I might use that > for each update field. > > John
The special characters (HTML entities) include characters with accents, etc. It can be a good way to handle things but can take a bit more room than the equivalent in UTF-8 encoding. Searches are tricky too since not everyone types the accents. James
