str_replace with html chunk

Mossy

Hi there,

I have a chunk of html for a general page menu on which I need to do an str_replace, ie

str_replace($original, $change, $chunk);

$original and $change are just strings with a .gif file name that changes on each page.

I'm having trouble sticking the html into $chunk though, keep getting parse errors. The html contains single quotes, double quotes, single quotes followed by brackets ') and preceded by them '( and all sorts of nastys.

What would be the correct way to put it into $chunk?

ie $chunk = ?..;

I've tried using htmlspecialchars and suchlike but I always get the same general parse error 🙁

Thank you for your help,

Mossy

BuzzLY

Did you use ENT_QUOTES?

$chunk = htmlspecialchars($html, ENT_QUOTES)

By default, htmlspecialchars will not translate single quotes, which may be causing your problem.

If that does not work, use htmlentities instead. It is more thorough. You may still have to use ENT_QUOTES:

$chunk = htmlentities($html, ENT_QUOTES)

laserlight

Actually, since you are entering it into the script itself, htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities() wont help.

Rather, if you are using single quotes as delimiters, you should escape all single quotes.

Other than that, it should go through ok.

Mossy

Escape all single quotes?

I'm just not sure as to the exact syntax for entering it into $html - the code is repititions of the following (for a nav menu, the str_replace highlights the selected page)

<A HREF="page.php" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image1','','Img/NavPageR.gif',1)">
<IMG NAME="Image1" BORDER="0" SRC="Img/NavPage.gif" WIDTH="42" HEIGHT="20" ALT="Page"></A>

How would I enter this into a variable?

$html = "...allthatabove.." will give a parse error for example :-/

I did try using the ENT_QUOTES but that didn't work

Thank you kindly for your help, I've been making faces at this all day 🙁

Mossy

Sorted it out, thanks for the help 🙂 Was using /s instead of \s before quotes. Doh. And I forgot a semicolon at the end of $chunk 🙁

🙂