[Resolved] apostrophe's

[mistafeesh]

Im passing a variable to a page by a URL parameter, ie "page.php?thingy=wotsit"

It woks fine, only sometimes the parameter includes an apostrophe, in which case the title of the page displays it as \' (backslash apostophe). Is there a way I can avoid this?

The code to display it is:

<?php
print ("$thingy");
?>

[tserbis]

stripslashes
?

[bad76]

Hi,
try to use htmlentities() or addslashes() functions.

[mistafeesh]

thanks. Just added stripslashes thingy, and that sorted it!

It's amazing how many forms etc on the net don't do that - I always notice because my surname is O'Brien! In fact, some forms throw a wobbly when presented with an apostrophe in the name field...

[Drakla]

If you ever start running Php on a different server you might find that you don't need stripslashes, and you might start removing legitimate slashes from input if you just throw in stripslashes out of habit. How to check? In php info if magic_quotes_gpc is On then you do need to use it. check with ini_get

if( ini_get("magic_quotes_gpc") )
    $myinput=stripslashes($myinput);

gpc is for get/post/cookie.

[tserbis]

get_magic_quotes_gpc

[mistafeesh]

thanks for the word of caution. I won't throw it in willy-nilly then! It fixes this problem nicely though, and won't throw up any problems without me seeing them first!