[Resolved] problems with a messagebox

[netooio]

<input type=button value="Show Answer" name="btnShowAnswer" onClick="alert('<?php echo $currentanswer ?>') "></p>

I am trying to pop up a message box that displays the answer
to a question on my website...

Here is my problem..

Say for example the answer has an apostrophe in it...
Answer: Netooio's item

Then I have a problem displaying the alert box because it wraps the textstring in single quotes also... so on my html it would end up being

<input type=button value="Show Answer" name="btnShowAnswer" onClick="alert('Netooio's item') "></p>

see the problem?? the apostrophe cuts off the single quote before the end of the string... How can I get around this..
I'm sure there must be an easy way like using a slash in from of the quote or something like that but i just dont know the syntax.

Thanks to whoever can help me out.

[ScubaKing22]

Sounds like your using JS, but in PHP you could do addslashes($var) and stripslashes($var) to add and strip slashes, respectively. As for adding a \, that is exactly what you do: \" to escape the quotes.

[netooio]

Ok, this is almost working.....

I used addslashes...
<input type=button value="Show Answer" name="btnShowAnswer" onClick="alert('<?php echo addslashes($currentanswer) ?>');" ></p>

$currentanswer contains the string: Hodgkin's Disease.
This is what it should output.

However when i view the source for my html page after it is loaded and processed the php stuff it says
<input type=button value="Show Answer" name="btnShowAnswer" onClick="alert('Hodgkin\'\'s Disease');" ></p>

For some reason it inserted an extra slash into the string
and it is outputting: Hodgkin''s Disease

[ScubaKing22]

Could you maybe most some of the code your using to get $currentanswer? That way I'm sure there's somewhere you could implement addslashes, then upon display, try stripslashes().

[netooio]

Got it working after playing with it a bit more.. Thanks for the help with addslashes...
I'm still pretty new to php and my biggest setback is just learning the syntax and function that are available.