text box in a form

asolell

Hi all,

I'm trying to populate a text box from a database.
It works fine, with the exception of one problem:

If I have quatation marks in the data, it truncates at that point.

echo "<INPUT TYPE=\"text\" NAME=\"$frmFieldName\" size=$Size value=\"$CurrValInDB\">";

If I do a simpel echo of "$CurrValInDB", I get the value the way
it should be. (assume the example is: " Some"thing ".

How can I fix this problem?
I've tried addslashes, stripslashes, but to no avail.

Thanks,

-Alon.

leatherback

Hi,

Your problem is not PH, but HTML related: HTML will search from the first "to the next ". What you could do is replace all " in your variable with ' to overcome the problem (Although it is not a very nice solution).

I am not sure how other people solve this.

CaptianChaos

echo "<INPUT TYPE=\"text\" NAME=\"$frmFieldName\" size=$Size value=\"".htmlspecialchars($CurrValInDB)."\">";

htmlspecialchars is your friend!

asolell

Yes!

That resolved the problem!
Thank you CaptianChaos!
If only I had known about this a while ago.
Thanks a lot. Major breakthrough for me..:-)

cheers,

-Alon.