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Quoted text disapearing in text input boxes
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:03 pm
by clem_c_rock
Hello,
This is rather embarassing given my 4 years of php coding experience but I've noticed when I'm pulling quoted text from a database into a input text field, the entire text w/in the quotes, and the quotes themselves disappears.
For instance, if I try to echo this string: this is "text", only the string: this is will show up in the text input box.
I know there has to something stupid I'm missing
Thanks,
Clem C
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:14 pm
by feyd
Re: Quoted text disapearing in text input boxes
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:17 pm
by alex.barylski
clem_c_rock wrote:Hello,
This is rather embarassing given my 4 years of php coding experience but I've noticed when I'm pulling quoted text from a database into a input text field, the entire text w/in the quotes, and the quotes themselves disappears.
For instance, if I try to echo this string: this is "text", only the string: this is will show up in the text input box.
I know there has to something stupid I'm missing
Thanks,
Clem C
So, only when you pull text from a database? or when you also echo quoted text?
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echo 'This is some "quoted text"';
Is your text stored in a DB as completely quoted? Single quote or double quotes?
You should provide more details...might be something your doing with
addslashes() or failing to do...who knows...
p.s-Why is any question embarrising?
Thats the beauty of computers and programming ...the more you know...the more you realize the less you know...
Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but i've never experienced a problem like this...
Cheers

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:52 pm
by clem_c_rock
Ah - great - the combonation of <?=stripslashes( htmlentities( $var ) ) ?> worked beautifully.
Why haven't I ever used htmlentities()?
Thanks again all
Much obliged!