escape chars (I think)

Anon

I've got a small problem with displaying a field that represents clothing size. It usually contaits info such as 'L' for large etc. This is fine, however, some of the fields contain info such as '28"' which when echoed come out as 28\"

This line is in my sending script....

echo ("<input name=size[$arrayindex] type=hidden value=$col5>");

....and this one is in the recieving script.

echo ("<td>$size[$count]\n</td>");

I thought it must be an escape character issue (and still do) but I can't stop it displaying incorrectly.

(I've tried quoting $col5 like this \"$col5\")

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Chris

polson

Most likely magic_quotes_gpc setting is turned on :

http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc

And when printing the data you'll want to use stripslashes() to strip those slashes :

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

Something like : stripslashes($size[$count]);

Btw, in your form you should put quotes around value, something like :

echo '<input name="size['. $arrayindex .']" type="hidden" value="'. $col5 .'">';

Actually, all html form elements should use quotes around values but this is a seperate topic 🙂 stripslashes() is the answer to your question. Also, you may want to check out this tutorial :

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php

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I don't get this part:

echo ("<input name=size[$arrayindex] type=hidden value=$col5>");

Is the output supposed to look like this (assuming $arrayindex has a value of 1 and $col5 has a value of '28"'):

If so,
1) You did not escape your " in the value attribute of the HTML. Maybe you did and just forgot to show it here?
2) If your variable name is "size[1]", then shouldn't you use this to get it's value:

$$size[$arrayindex]

I'm not really getting what the problem is here. Would you mind showing me your code so I can take a look?

When I do something like:

$value = '28"';
echo ($value);

I get output WITHOUT the \ character: 28"

-sridhar

Anon

Thanks vey much for your comprehensive and rapid help.

Chris

Anon

Sridhar,

I just think it looks a bit confusing because of what I'm doing with it.

I'm dynamically generating a form with stock balance and an order input field.

I need to pass each instance of stock balance[array element], order input field[array element], with each associated, ordered stock record (each has a colour and size description.

The first line of code is my means of saving each aforementioned value.

The second (in a validation script) simple prints the size value.

I did try to escape the quote, but I was doing so in a variable not a literal.

I'm going to try Philip's suggestion tomorrow morning.

Thanks for responding

🙂

Chris