escape sequence chars

[kathyc]

I have an html form which contains an input box that is named
Ship_Company that is 30 chars long.

If the user enters for example in the box,
It's a wonderful "life".

When they press the submit button and my
php script reads the variable $Ship_Company
and then displays it back to the user,
the variable contains only "It"

everything after the first apostrophe char
is gone.

I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure
out what to do here. I would appreciate
any help I can get.

Thanks

[reagent]

where is this being displayed, and how?
is it being displayed inside a text box, or just text on a page.

sample code would help

[kathyc]

In my html form, I have

<form etc....>

<input type=text maxlength=30
size=30 name="Ship_Company">

etc...

and in my php3 code, the part that
I'm using to display the return
html page is....

.....other code here

print "<table width=340 border=0 align=left bgColor=white>\n";
print "<tr>\n";
print "<td align=left>\n";
print "&nbsp;&nbsp;Company\n";
print "</font>\n";
print "</td>\n\n";

print "<td align=left>\n";
print "<input type=text maxlength=30 size=30 value='$Ship_Company'>\n";
print "</td>\n";
print "</tr>\n";
print "</table>\n";

.....other code here and then end of php

Thanks.

[reagent]

print "<input type=text maxlength=30 size=30 value='$Ship_Company'>\n";

seems to be the problem, changing it to
print "<input type=text maxlength=30 size=30 value="$Ship_Company">\n";

while this will fix that problem, when $Ship_Company contains a double quote ("), you'll run into a similar problem. so to make that work, do this:
<?
$Ship_Company = str_replace("\"", "&quot;", $Ship_Company);

print "<input type=text maxlength=30 size=30 value="$Ship_Company">\n";
?>

As a side note, you don't need to do all those print statements unless you really like to.

this will generate the same effect

table width="340" border="0" align="left" bgColor="white">
<tr>
<td align="left">Company</td>
<td align="left">
<input type=text maxlength=30 size=30 value="<? echo $Ship_Company ?>"><td>
</tr>
</table>

That will easily allow you to properly quote your attributes.

Also, you may be able to substitute
<?= $Ship_Company ?>
for
<? echo $Ship_Company ?>

depending on your php config..

hth.