replacing " with '

[Anon]

Can someone help me to figure out how to replace " with ' for a string? I tried ereg_replace but i keep getting errors.

$sig = HTMLSpecialChars($sig);
$sig = ereg_replace("["]","[']",$sig);

i might be doing something wrong...all i want to do is find the " in $sig and replace it with '

Anyhelp would be great
-Frank

[Anon]

Hi,

how about

strtr($sig,"\"","'");

Good luck.

[[deleted]]

A "Homer's-DOH!" moment.

$sig = ereg_replace("["]","[']",$sig);

this: "["]" is not proper PHP, because the second quote already ends the string...

try this:

$sig = ereg_replace("\"","'",$sig);

[polson]

yes, that's how to do it with ereg_replace but is inefficient.

use str_replace() instead as it's much faster :

$string = str_replace('"',"'",$string);

[Anon]

Those all do the same thing. They replace the " with a \" and not the '. Anyone know why?

Thanks,
-Frank

[polson]

what are you doing? sounds like you're talking about addslashes()

[Anon]

All i want to do is take all the " in the paragraph and replace them with ' and the scripts in the other messages replace " with \" when I want to replace " with '

[[deleted]]

No they don't. The solutions in the other messages really replace " with '.
if you are seeing \", then there must be something else in your script doing that.

[polson]

To replace " with ' do :

$string = str_replace('"',"'",$string);

To replace ' with \' and " with \" do :

$string = addslashes($string);

Something you may want to keep in mind as depending on what you're doing, it could affect you, is :

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

[Anon]

do you have runtime magic quotes on? that might be causing you some problems...

[polson]

Aha! Now the question is starting to make more sense.

Have a look at magic_quotes_gpc setting, here :

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

After reading the above, and checking your php.ini for your setting ( or see phpinfo() ), it should make more sense. I doubt it has to do with magic_quotes_runtime.

If magic_quotes_gpc are to remain on, you'll need to use stripslashes() to strip them slashes, like so :

$str = "what\'s up?";

$str = stripslashes($str); // now $str = "what's up?"

[Anon]

i despise magic quotes. it's like putting training wheels on your code, and it makes my life much more difficult. i only suggested runtime cause for some reason i thought he might be dealing with code generated variables instead of get/post. i don't know why i thought that...

[Anon]

Yeah, they can be annoying. It's amazing how many people wonder where these strange slashes come from, and why, and huh? I usually assume _gpc as they are usually on by default.

It's magic! :-)