Form Problem- QUOTES?

[tony_l]

I hate to bother you folks on this one, but I need a solution-

I have a form that allows a user to EDIT information in their profile. The problem I am foreseeing is the use of special characters like a single quote.

I decided that the best bet would be to use addslashes() and stripslashes(). Well the form is populated with the users previously entered information- this way they can see what they want to change 🙂

Well everything is working, except when I test it using something like-

TONY's WONDERFUL LOGBOOK

In the form, instead of having the whole string, it is cutting it off still as such-

TONY

I have come to the consclusion that this is due to the input tag<input type='text' name='logbook' value = '$log_name'> . I have even tried htmlspecialchars() in the hopes that it will still show it, but it is giving me the same thing.

Does anyone have a work-around for this problem?

[LordShryku]

You have to use the ENT_QUOTES directive in your htmlspecialchars function. This specifically tells it to render single quotes as well.

[laserlight]

You could also use double quotes as delimiters instead of single quotes, upon which you wont have to include the extra parameter in htmlspecialchars() as that would take care of double quotes.

[Antistatic]

Just use double quotes. If you are printing the data or echoing it then jsut escape the double quotes \"