Variable error

[Anon]

I have a slight problem with variable passing between two pages

Page 1 contains a text box on a form called quest

When i press submit it goes through to page two for comfirmation before submitting to the database. This variable is picked up on the second pages text box as <?php echo $quest ?>.

This works great until my first text box contains a speech mark for example if i type hello in my text box it gets passed through however if i type "hello" all I see in my second form box is \

What am i doing wrong I just cant see it

[Anon]

you want to use

echo htmlspecialchars($quest) ;

what's happening is that your html tag weill look something like

<input type=text name="bob" value=""hello"">

whereas htmlspecialcharring it will turn it into

<input type=text name="bob" value="&quot;hello&quot;">

which should echo with no trouble.

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rad

[Anon]

Rad,

Thanks for the help and its nearly working

In my second box I now get

"\&quot;hello\&quot;"

where is the \ generated from ???

[Anon]

Rad

Something went wrong on my last post it should have read

This is what I get in the second box

\"hello\"

Mike

[Anon]

aha! in which case try

echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($quest)) ;

my guess is that you have "magic quotes" turned on, which automatically escapes quotes within strings

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rad

[Anon]

Rad

Your a star it now works great

What are you referring to with "magic quotes" turned on

I've not come across the phrase before and how do I switch it off!!!!

Mike

[Anon]

have a look at

http://www.php.net/manual/configuration.php

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rad