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  • Mark Stevens
    #1

    Input, POST and double quotes

    I am having problems with double quotes inside a post variable. The
    code below illustrates this. If the user enters non-quoted text then
    the code works OK. If "Hello" is entered then I get $some_text equal
    to \"Hello\". What I want is the actual text that the user entered
    and not the processed version.

    I am new to php so please be gentle with me.

    Thanks in advance,
    Mark

    <?php
    if (isset($_POST['some_text']))
    $some_text = $_POST['some_text'];
    else
    $some_text = "";
    ?>
    <html><body>
    <form method="POST" action="test.ph p">
    <p>
    <?php echo("Old text: " . htmlentities($s ome_text). "<br>"); ?>
    Enter text: <input name="some_text " size="20"><br>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit">
    </p>
    </form>
    </body></html>
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    Mark Stevens (mark at thepcsite fullstop co fullstop uk)
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    • steven mestdagh
      #2
      Re: Input, POST and double quotes

      Mark Stevens <read@my.sig> wrote:[color=blue]
      > I am having problems with double quotes inside a post variable. The
      > code below illustrates this. If the user enters non-quoted text then
      > the code works OK. If "Hello" is entered then I get $some_text equal
      > to \"Hello\". What I want is the actual text that the user entered
      > and not the processed version.[/color]

      special characters are escaped by a backslash (\) upon form submission.
      you can remove the backslashes by

      $some_text = stripslashes($s ome_text);

      check out the stripslashes function in the manual for more information
      and related functions.

      regards,
      steven.

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        • Mark Stevens
          #3
          Re: Input, POST and double quotes

          On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:05:14 +0000 (UTC), steven mestdagh
          <steven.mestdag h@esat.kuleuven .REMOVE-THIS.ac.be> wrote:
          [color=blue]
          >special characters are escaped by a backslash (\) upon form submission.
          >you can remove the backslashes by
          >
          >$some_text = stripslashes($s ome_text);[/color]

          Thanks, knew there had to be simple answer.

          Cheers,
          Mark
          --
          |\ _,,,---,,_ A picture used to be worth a
          ZZZzzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;, thousand words - then along
          |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' came television!
          '---''(_/--' `-'\_)

          Mark Stevens (mark at thepcsite fullstop co fullstop uk)

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            • Andy Hassall
              #4
              Re: Input, POST and double quotes

              On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:49:36 +0000, Mark Stevens <read@my.sig> wrote:
              [color=blue]
              >I am having problems with double quotes inside a post variable. The
              >code below illustrates this. If the user enters non-quoted text then
              >the code works OK. If "Hello" is entered then I get $some_text equal
              >to \"Hello\". What I want is the actual text that the user entered
              >and not the processed version.[/color]

              You've got magic_quotes_gp c turned on. If possible, turn it off. If not, use
              stripslashes().

              --
              Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co. uk> / Space: disk usage analysis tool
              <http://www.andyh.co.uk > / <http://www.andyhsoftwa re.co.uk/space>

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                • David Jackson
                  #5
                  Re: Input, POST and double quotes

                  Mark Stevens <read@my.sig> wrote in message news:<232s205s9 m7r2smpf9p3rjq3 13udnbp87q@4ax. com>...[color=blue]
                  > I am having problems with double quotes inside a post variable. The
                  > code below illustrates this. If the user enters non-quoted text then
                  > the code works OK. If "Hello" is entered then I get $some_text equal
                  > to \"Hello\". What I want is the actual text that the user entered
                  > and not the processed version.[/color]

                  Take a look at stripslashes():
                  http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php


                  David

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