echo quote in form

epik_x

How can I echo a variable that has a quote in it to a form ei. "testvariable" , It echos fine outside of a form but if i try to print it in a form I doesnt print anything.

packland

i think your looking for a literal () flag. In regular expressions and php the \ symbol indicates that the following character should be taken literally.

$aquote = "\"to be or not to be....\"";

yes/no/other?

packland

also sometimes mixing single quotes and double quotes works:

<? echo "I don't know if this will work"; ?>

<? echo " but this\"ll definitely work "; ?>

epik_x

I tried that didnt work. What im doing is storing a quote in a DB it stores fine, and it prints fine everywhere except a text form.

This is my code:

<?php
$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "", "");
mysql_select_db("",$db);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE name = '$update_menu'",$db);
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
?>

That part obvuiosly takes the info from the DB.

$row["quote"] is equal to "i dont have a quote"

If I do that it works...

echo  $row["quote"];

But if i do this it wont work

<input type="text" name="quote" value="<?php echo $row["quote"];?>" size="40">

I have no idea why it wont print in the test form...

epik_x

Ok i just seemed to have solved my problem if i do this it works...kinda weird as why the other way doesnt work???

<?php
$quote = $myrow["quote"];
        echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"quote\" value='$quote' size=\"40\"></p>";
        ?>

suntra

Personnally, I use htmlentities(). It converts " to " , é to é , etc. When it is sent to a PHP script, PHP automatically converts " to ", é to é, etc.

philhale

You wrote:

I do know that the following works:

$quote = $row["quote"];
<input type = "text" name="quote" value="<?PHP Print ($quote); ?>" size="40">

Best of luck.

planetsim

Now i to have add the same experince like that. So i did the same thing you did. Now it should actually work in theory. But as its an array still i think that could be the reason it doesnt work.