single and double quotes (again)

[timandkitty]

similar issue as a couple of days ago, different circumstance...

I am having trouble placing dynamic text with single and/or double quotes into an input box.

For example:

$myname = "John \"Babyface\" O'Mally";
$myname = stripslashes($myname);

echo "My Name: <input type=text name=myname value='".$myname."'>";

Because the value of $myname is more than 1 word it needs to be in quotes when output to the input field.

[ha]...output to the input field... that's funny...[/ha]

However, the slashes need to be stripped because it is a final output and is seen by the end-user...

Is there an easy way to do this without employing yet another language and making a whole new JavaScript var containing the output (or input, however you want to look at it)? Surely there's some kind of simple PHP/HTML syntax I'm missing to lessen the load of code...

Thanks in advance...

[jpmoriarty]

your friend... the ever helpful "htmlspecialchars" will convert those nasty " to helpful & quots;

<?php
$myname = "John \"Babyface\" O'Mally";
$myname = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($myname));

echo "My Name: <input type=text name=myname value=\"$myname\">";
?>

[timandkitty]

muchas gracias!