Somethings turning my " to /%22...

[pyro]

Got a really weird error going on here. Some of my " are turning into /%22. Here's the relevant code:

<?PHP
#include "inc/config.php";
# needed config vars
$path_to_images = "/ryanbrill/images"; 
$header = "inc/header.txt";

$title = "";
$entry = "";
$date = date("l, F jS, Y");
$time = date("h:i a");
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
	$title = stripslashes(@$_POST['title']);
	$entry = stripslashes(@$_POST['entry']);

###If I remove from here...
$header = "<?PHP\n"
."include \"$header\";\n"
."?>\n\n";
### ... to here, it works fine
$blog = "<div class=\"blogentry\">\n"
."	<h2 class=\"blogtitle\"><a href=\"#\">$title</a></h2>\n"
."	<p class=\"blogdate\">$date</p>\n"
."	$entry\n"
."	<p class=\"blogfooter\">Posted at $time | <img src=\"$path_to_images/permalink.gif\" width=\"8\" height=\"10\" alt=\"Permanant URL\" /> <a href=\"#\">Permanent URL</a> | <img src=\"$path_to_images/comments.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" alt\"comments\" /> <a href=\"#\">0 Comments</a></p>\n"
."</div>\n";

echo $blog;
}
?>

<div id="container">
	<form action="<?PHP echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
		<p>Entry title <input type="text" name="title" value="<?PHP echo $title; ?>" class="formbox" id="title" / ></p>
		<p><textarea name="entry" rows="25" cols="65" class="formbox"><?PHP echo $entry; ?></textarea></p>
		<p class="right">Formatting? <input type="checkbox" name="format" checked="checked" class="middle" /> 
		<a href="#"><img src="images/help.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="help" class="middle" /></a><br />
		<input type="submit" name="preview" value="Preview" class="middle" /> 
		<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Blog It" class="middle" /> </p>
	</form>
</div>

Now, for instance, this line:

."    <h2 class=\"blogtitle\"><a href=\"#\">$title</a></h2>\n"

echos out as

<h2 class="blogtitle"><a href=/%22#/%22></a></h2>

Any ideas what's going on? I'm gettin pretty frusterated.... 🙁

[pyro]

Ok, made a bit of progress. Found out it's this line, specifically:

."?>\n\n";

I can work around it, by using something like this:

."?".">\n\n"; 

It did, however, work on the other server I tried it on (basically the same set up - Win XP home, Apache 1.3.28, and PHP 4.3.3). So now the question is why, and how do I fix it (other than the hack)?

[jakem]

I just tested your code on my server and all worked fine. I'm not sure what's causing it but it looks as if on your setup the quotes are being encoded as a url safe string...similar to what you would get if you passed it through the urlencode() function. I suppose you could just output it using urldecode()
ie:

print urldecode($blog);

[pyro]

Thought of that... urldecode works fine as far as turning the %22 back into a " but it does not get rid of the / that comes before it...

[stolzyboy]

may have to do a [man]str_replace[/man] or something to get rid of that

[pyro]

Well, like I said, the little hack above worked fine. I was more curious why this could be happening. Not overly important, as that server is hosted of my DSL connection, so I don't really have much serious stuff on it.