Forms with special characters/PHP

[hbradshaw]

Hello:

I have a form which will pass information that contains special characters such as phone number, time, date, etc.

When I process the form, I would like the information to appear as it should. For example, phone number should appear as 11-111-1111; time 6:00, date 12/31/2005.

Right now, when I call in those fields in my script, I'm getting blank data. I know it has to do with the dashes, colon, slashes.

How does PHP handle special characters? What can I do to my variable in my script to make the information appear as it should?

Thank you in advance.

[m_tt]

PHP would not filter out dashes or colons automatically... something is wrong in your code.

It's hard to help you without posting your code here but you can try doing print_r($_POST); and see all the variables being posted from the form

BradShaw is a familiar name to me... 😉

[hbradshaw]

Hi,

Thanks for replying. I found what I did wrong.