How to put single quote in string

likchin

i want to single quote inside the string. for example

$strString = "i'm girl";

when i echo out the string, it's like this :

i\'m girl //output

i want the string like "i'm girl".

i try to use stripslashes. something like below

$strString = "i's girl";
$strAfter = stripslaches($strString);
echo "<br>after strip : ". $strAfter;

But the output still is the same.. Can anybody help me??

BuzzLY

try stripslashes, not stripslaches.

likchin

sorry ... i am using stripslashes($strString);

snap2000

Could you try something like this?

<?php
$str = "I\'m a girl";

$str = str_replace("\'","'",$str);

echo $str;
?>

LordShryku

essentially the same thing stripslashes does, only in more code...

snap2000

Originally posted by LordShryku
essentially the same thing stripslashes does, only in more code...

So I suppose it has no chance of producing different results?

What would cause the slashes to show up in the first place?

likchin

why i can't use stripslashes, instead of using str_replace??

snap2000

Originally posted by likchin
why i can't use stripslashes, instead of using str_replace??

Escuse me?

likchin

ok.... thanks everybody... i managed to echo out the result which i want. Using the stripslashes and using the str_replace is showing same result.

snap2000

Originally posted by likchin
ok.... thanks everybody... i managed to echo out the result which i want. Using the stripslashes and using the str_replace is showing same result.

Alright. Glad you could fix it, even though I didn't help. <_< 😛

LordShryku

Originally posted by snap2000
So I suppose it has no chance of producing different results?

What would cause the slashes to show up in the first place?

magic_quotes_gpc causes that. When set on, is terminates all needed characters with slashes by default.

BuzzLY

I was just working with a deal like this yesterday. There is a thing in PHP called Magic Quotes. What it means is that quotes are automatically escaped with a .

When it's replaced is the issue here.

If you have magic_quotes_gpc turned on in your ini file, then any time you post a value that has a quote in it, the quote will be escaped.

There is another setting, magic_quotes_runtime. According to the manual:

If magic_quotes_runtime is enabled, most functions that return data from any sort of external source including databases and text files will have quotes escaped with a backslash.

Is it possible that this is why you are getting escaped quotes? The good news is that you can turn off magic_quotes_runtime with the function set_magic_quotes_runtime(0). Give that a try.

snap2000

Thank you for that information. 😃

I haven't had a chance to look at every function yet, and it'll take time and use to remember them fully. 😉