Displaying " in a form text box

[monomaniac21]

Hi all ive added a form to a script using php and the form is to hold
sizes of a product which means the client needs to be able to use " to
denote inches. However when this is entered and the form submitted it
makes it into the table and then displays as text on the page but not
inside the form as its value. Is there a way around this?

Ive tried replacing " with ' and a ' together but can't get this to
work in the str_replace funtion example: str_replace('"' , '''',
$string); and help would be greatly appeciated!

Kind regards

Marc

[Rik]

Re: Displaying " in a form text box

monomaniac21 wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all ive added a form to a script using php and the form is to hold
> sizes of a product which means the client needs to be able to use " to
> denote inches. However when this is entered and the form submitted it
> makes it into the table and then displays as text on the page but not
> inside the form as its value. Is there a way around this?[/color]

htmlspecialchar s($string);

Among others, it will replace '"' with '"'
[color=blue]
> Ive tried replacing " with ' and a ' together but can't get this to
> work in the str_replace funtion example: str_replace('"' , '''',
> $string); and help would be greatly appeciated![/color]


Ugly solution, but here;s how it would work:
str_replace('"' , '\'\'',$string) ;
or
str_replace('"' , "''",$strin g);

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Displaying " in a form text box

Message-ID: <e11b7$449ff207 $8259c69c$16278 @news1.tudelft. nl> from Rik
contained the following:
[color=blue]
>htmlspecialcha rs($string);
>
>Among others, it will replace '"' with '&quot;'[/color]

Don't you need to do this?

htmlspecialchar s($string, ENT_QUOTES);

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Regards,

Geoff Berrow

[Rik]

Re: Displaying &quot; in a form text box

Geoff Berrow wrote:[color=blue]
> Message-ID: <e11b7$449ff207 $8259c69c$16278 @news1.tudelft. nl> from Rik
> contained the following:
>[color=green]
>> htmlspecialchar s($string);
>>
>> Among others, it will replace '"' with '&quot;'[/color]
>
> Don't you need to do this?
>
> htmlspecialchar s($string, ENT_QUOTES);[/color]

Default is ENT_COMPAT, which only translates double quotes, which would be
sufficient in this particular case. ENT_QUOTES will also translate the
single quotes, which is not strictly neccessary here, but might be a good
idea indeed.

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus