populating a form field with data that contains a single quote

kodyntc

I am having a problem. When I enter in my data as "Tampa/Norwich ('00)" minus the double quotes. It shows up correctly when I pull the data from the database and display it. But when I try and populate a form field with it (the edit page), the only data that is there is "Tampa/Norwich (" everything before the single quote, all else is lost.

How do I populate a form field if the data has a single quote in it?

magic_quotes_gpc is on
magic_quotes_runtime is off

Thanks

toma42

Your html is wrong. You're doing

value='<? echo $someval; ?>'
you should NEVER use single quotes to enclose html attributes. Always use double ones.

kodyntc

I am not sure if you understand.

The field "last_years_club" contains "Tampa/Norwich ('00) "

I pull it from the database and try and insert it into a form field.

echo "  <tr>
    <td width='100' align='right'>Last Years Club:</td>
    <td width='5'>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width='495'><input name='last_years_club' type='text' id='height5' size='25' value='$last_years_club'></td>
  </tr>";

It gets inserted into the form field as "Tampa/Norwich (" stoping at the single quote.

if I echo $last_years_club before the form field like:

echo "  <tr>
    <td width='100' align='right'>Last Years Club:</td>
    <td width='5'>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width='495'>$last_years_club<input name='last_years_club' type='text' id='height5' size='25' value='$last_years_club'></td>
  </tr>";

it displays correctly before the form field, but not in the form field. How do I get it to display correctly in the form field?

Even if I display it like you said:

  <tr>
    <td width='100' align='right'>Last Years Club:</td>
    <td width='5'>&nbsp;</td>
    <td width='495'><input name='last_years_club' type='text' id='height5' size='25' value='<? echo $last_years_club ?>'></td>
  </tr>

It still doesn't work.

kodyntc

I got it figured out. Thanks though

toma42

I absolutly did understand. Just look at your html:
<tr>

<td width='100' align='right'>Last Years Club:</td>

You're using single quotes around all html attributes, just as I said. Change them all to double quotes.

jassh

ermm..

you should NEVER use single quotes to enclose html attributes. Always use double ones.

i always use single quote on html tags, if i wanna echo em..

like this..

echo "<input type='submit' name='btn_submit' value='submit'>";

i dont think there would be any problem with this..
or.. are there?

and if i were to write your code,
i will write it like this

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='100' align='right'>Last Years Club:</td>";
echo "<td width='5'>&nbsp;</td>
echo "<td width='495'><input name='last_years_club' type='text' id='height5' size='25' value='$last_years_club'></td>";
echo "</tr>";

probably because i always use double quotes for variables

and you might wanna use addslahes/stripslashes,
or escape the single quotes in the database/variables..

just a thought though..
try it.. hope that helps

cheers;
-jassh

jayant

here $mytext will be outputted and single/double quotes won't create any problems.