Strings and Stripslashes Not Working

geogal

Okay, I know this has been posted many times here, but after searching through the posts, I cannot find my answer. Help!

All I'm doing is passing a form to a confirmation screen, which then gets input into a .txt file and the results are emailed. The process itself is working fine (got the .txt file and the emails), but after stripping out the \ in the text fields, I'm only getting part of the response. My variables only contain up to the word with the apostrophe. I know it has something to do with wrapping my variable into single quotes, but this is getting ignored after stripping slashes.

CONFIRMATION SCREEN:

<?
$Director = stripslashes($Director);

print "<HTML>
<form action=process.php>

Director: $Director<input type=hidden name=Director value=$Director>
.
.
.
</form>

PROCESS.PHP (printed so I can see results):
<?
$Marketing_Director = stripslashes($Marketing_Director);

echo "$Marketing_Director";

?>

If the Director's name is "Sam's Smith's" I just get "Sam's". Anbody know the boneheaded mistake I'm doing? I feel like an idiot, especially since so many posts have been made on stripslashes, but I can't get this to work.

Thanks people.

Geogal

stolzyboy

can you attach the file you are working with so we can look further or just post the script if it isn't too long

geogal

Sure, thanks for replying. I found a workaround, but it seems awfully clunky. The code is to follow.

To sum: When a form is submitted (to the same page), it reads out a confirmation of all the form fields. The apostrophes are fine and it reads correctly on the screen when I use stripslashes(). Then, when it gets re-submittted to another page to do the .txt file and email, I end up with only half my responses if I use an apostrophe (like Harry's instead of Harry's Bar).

I did this, but please do not hesitate to let me know of a more simplified way.

AFTER SUBMITTING FORM FIRST TIME

$Salesperson_Name = stripslashes($Salesperson_Name);
$Salesperson_Name = urlencode("$Salesperson_Name");
$Salesperson_NameX = urldecode("$Salesperson_Name");

I WRITE THE RESPONSE TO THE SCREEN AND PREPARE TO SUBMIT AGAIN (lots of standard form stuff left out)

<form...>

echo "Name of Salesperson(s): $Salesperson_NameX
<input type=hidden name=Salesperson_Name value='$Salesperson_Name'>";

</form>

AFTER SUBMITTING FORM SECOND TIME TO PROCESS EMAIL

<?
$Salesperson_Name = urldecode("$Salesperson_Name");
$admail....

It just seems like a lot of encoding/decoding to get this to work right. I tried to just use urldecode on both pages, but it didn't work.

The above works, but took me all day to do 29 forms. Probably wasted my time, but live and learn 🙂

Thanks for any input!

Geogal