Problems with " ' and 

[prouski]

I'm not sure if there's an elegant solution to this, but I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

I'm storing room sizes in a single field in a db table, eg.
14'2" x 15'1" (4.34m x 4.62m)

I then need users to be able to edit this info using a form, but when I read the info from the table and do something like the following:
<input name="roomsize" type="text" value="<?php echo $roomsize; ?>"

the double quotes are interpreted as the end of field, resulting in the input text box displaying only 14'2 in the above example.

Simply echoing $roomsize on its own displays the correct data.

If I change the double-quotes from " to  (double prime) then the problem goes away, but users will obviously enter " (ie. shift-2 [UK keyboards, at least]) rather than 

Even suggestions for an inelegant solution would do
🙂

[prouski]

The double prime in the example above isn't displaying correctly. For the record, it effectively looks like an italic version of a double quote.

[cgraz]

Try this:

<?

$roomsize = str_replace("'", "&#39;", $roomsize);

?>

<input name="roomsize" type="text" value="<?php echo $roomsize; ?>">

BTW, don't forget the end carot > after the quote on your input.

Cgraz

[prouski]

Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately this didn't work, but you sent me in the right direction.

The following works perfectly:
.....value="<?php echo HTMLSpecialChars($roomsize); ?>"

Thanks