ereg_replace("\$","",$turnover); not working

lulubell

I'm stuck on some code which I've read should work, but it isn't

This is what I'm trying to do:

I've called a field $turnover from a database and put the value in an input box:

it goes something like this:

$result = mysql_query ("SELECT id, currency,turnover from db where id="1"")

if ($myrow = @mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$currency=$myrow["currency"];
$turnover=$myrow["turnover"];
$turnover=$currency.$turnover;
echo"<FORM NAME='Money' ACTION='updates.php' METHOD='POST'>\n";
echo "<INPUT TYPE=text NAME='turnover' VALUE='$turnover' SIZE=40 MAXLENGTH=100>";
echo " submit and so on..."
}

I basically display the value of $turnover in the input field, with $currency appended to it. So if the value of $currency = "$" and $turnover is "500" the value of the input field would be "$500"

This bit works. The problem is when the user then changes the currency to be "£" the "$" symbol is added to the $turnover field in the db even though before I submit the data I have put:

$turnover = ereg_replace("£","",$turnover);
$turnover = ereg_replace("€","",$turnover);
$turnover = ereg_replace("\$","",$turnover);

For some reason it does not excape the $ symbol, but it works perfectly well with the £ or € symbol

Can anyone help??:queasy:

jonno946

maybe try this:

$turnover = ereg_replace("[$]","",$turnover);

Jonno

Weedpacket

Or use [man]str_replace[/man]; then you won't have to deal with the fact that $ has a special meaning in regular expressions, and use single quotes instead of double quotes and then PHP's special handling of $ in double-quoted strings won't affect you either. str_replace() would also be measurably faster

lulubell

thanks the [$] worked

Muchly appreciated