Quote in textarea

Anon

My problem is this:

Users fill out a <FORM> with a <textarea> in it. Once they submit the form I want the information to be sent into hidden fields on the next page (which has another form).

Now if in the <textarea> a user enteres a " (quote) in the next page in the hidden field it will cut off where the " (quote) was entered.

Example: In the textarea i write:

The CD is titled "Ride The Lightning"

Now on the next page will look like this

How can i prevent this?

Anon

print '<input type="hidden" name="whatever" value="'. addslashes($variablename) .'">';

Anon

Nope, addslashes does not work because i am not yet adding it to the database im just bringing the value of the textarea to the next page in a hidden field. So addslashes does nothing 🙁 Any other ideas?

Is it possible to hide a textarea?

Anon

In my experience, PHP automatically escapes the quotes on the value of a <TEXTAREA> when the Name is called as the global variable on the second page.

Anon

I have tried reporducing your situation but it always works fine for me. Could you paste your code here so we can see?

Thanks

Anon

Just replace the "-character for HTML coding (& q u o t ; (spaces r included coz of interpretation by ur browser))

Anon

There is the answer

htmlspecialchars()

With that function,
'&' (ampersand) becomes '&'
'"' (double quote) becomes '"'
'<' (less than) becomes '<'
etc.

Use it like that:
$stringvar = "<BR>";
echo hhtmlspecialchars($stringvar);

OUTPUT = <BR>
so you see <BR>

For more info, see
http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.htmlspecialchars.php

Anon

Sorry,
There is the real answer

htmlspecialchars()

With that function,
'&' (ampersand) becomes '&amp;'
'"' (double quote) becomes '&quot;'
'<' (less than) becomes '&lt;'
etc.

Use it like that:
$stringvar = "<BR>";
echo hhtmlspecialchars($stringvar);

OUTPUT = &lt;BR&gt;
so you see <BR>

For more info, see
http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.htmlspecialchars.php

Anon

here is my problem:
before I store a title in a database field. I used htmlspecialchars() sooooo.

St. Pattty's Day
is translated to
St. Patty\'s Day
fine. then when I bring the title back from the DB into a drop-down I use stripslash() to get rid of the escape char which results in:
<option value=1>2002-04-09 St. Patty's Day</option>
this works fine, but on the next page I want the title into a textbox. I bring it back from the db without stripslashing it and try:
<input name=title type=text size=50 value='$x_title'>
but this results in:
<input name=title type=text size=50 value='St. Patty\'s Day'>
which cuts off everything after the \ in the textbox.
HOW DO I GET the following to appear in the code:
<input name=title type=text size=50 value="St. Patty's Day">
I cannot figure out how to output " in the HTML with PHP. HELP

Anon

cols=40>here is my problem:
before I store a title in a database field. I used htmlspecialchars() sooooo.

St. Pattty's Day
is translated to
St. Patty\'s Day
fine. then when I bring the title back from the DB into a drop-down I use stripslash() to get rid of the escape char which results in:
<option value=1>2002-04-09 St. Patty's Day</option>
this works fine, but on the next page I want the title into a textbox. I bring it back from the db without stripslashing it and try:
<input name=title type=text size=50 value='$x_title'>
but this results in:
<input name=title type=text size=50 value='St. Patty\'s Day'>
which cuts off everything after the \ in the textbox.
HOW DO I GET the following to appear in the code:
<input name=title type=text size=50 value="St. Patty's Day">
I cannot figure out how to output " in the HTML with PHP. HELP