POST only returns 1st word

marcdog64

Summary:

I'm passing a variable from one script to the next. The variable is only passing the 1st word in the text field, while multiple words are being entered.

Code: (from 2.php)

echo "<b>Notes:</b>";
print "<br>";
echo $POST['notes'];
print "<input name=notes type=hidden value=". $POST["notes"] .">";

Details:

$notes was passed successfully from 1.php to 2.php. However, when it passes to 3.php (via hidden value) it only grabs 1st word. Please help

LordShryku

Well, take a look at the source....

Say your value was "Blah blah blah". Now when printed in the html, it looks like this:

<input name=notes type=hidden value=Blah blah blah>

How's it supposed to know where the value ends? Based on the lack of quotes, it'll use the first space. Using quotes, it'll pass all of it.

print '<input name="notes" type="hidden" value="'.$_POST['notes'].'">';

laserlight

Check your HTML - your attribute value isnt quoted properly.

print "<input name=\"notes\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"". $_POST["notes"] ."\">";

marcdog64

Thanks Guys, i knew it was a simple fix. I really thought I had tried all possible combos.

rehfeld

you should also take a look at
htmlentities()
htmlspecialchars()
stripslashes()

the way your currently doing it, will break if the 'notes' have quotes in them