[PHP] escaping quotes in mail() message
I'm having a problem escaping double quotes in email messages sent with mail(). The message is built as a string and assigned to a variable and the variable name is passed to the mail function. The double quotes appear correctly in a simple test like this: $message = This message uses 'single' and \double\ quotes.; mail($sendto, $subject, $message, $headers); But if $message is built in another part of the script and passed as a hidden input of a form, the email arrives with the message truncated at the first double quote encountered. If I do a str_replace() on $message to escape double quotes, the email shows the escaping backslash but is still truncated at the double quote! I've got magic_quotes on, but I think I'm keeping up with stripslashes because single quotes are showing up correctly. Can anyone please advise? -- Lowell Allen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] escaping quotes in mail() message
I'm having a problem escaping double quotes in email messages sent with mail(). The message is built as a string and assigned to a variable and the variable name is passed to the mail function. The double quotes appear correctly in a simple test like this: $message = This message uses 'single' and \double\ quotes.; mail($sendto, $subject, $message, $headers); But if $message is built in another part of the script and passed as a hidden input of a form, the email arrives with the message truncated at the first double quote encountered. If I do a str_replace() on $message to escape double quotes, the email shows the escaping backslash but is still truncated at the double quote! I've got magic_quotes on, but I think I'm keeping up with stripslashes because single quotes are showing up correctly. Can anyone please advise? You can't escape double quotes in HTML... it doesn't understand. So, you're ending up with a hidden element like this: input type=hidden name=whatever value=This message uses 'single' and \double\ qutoes. HTML will cut it off at the first because it doesn't recognize the escape character. The way around this is to use htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars() on your string before you insert it into the value attribute of your form element. It will come out decoded on the the other side, so you don't have to worry about that. Hope that helps. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] escaping quotes in mail() message
From: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm having a problem escaping double quotes in email messages sent with mail(). The message is built as a string and assigned to a variable and the variable name is passed to the mail function. The double quotes appear correctly in a simple test like this: $message = This message uses 'single' and \double\ quotes.; mail($sendto, $subject, $message, $headers); But if $message is built in another part of the script and passed as a hidden input of a form, the email arrives with the message truncated at the first double quote encountered. If I do a str_replace() on $message to escape double quotes, the email shows the escaping backslash but is still truncated at the double quote! [snip] The way around this is to use htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars() on your string before you insert it into the value attribute of your form element. It will come out decoded on the the other side, so you don't have to worry about that. John, thanks for the fine reply -- problem solved! -- Lowell Allen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
