easiest way to get commas & spaces through a hidden post

mikeycorn

I have a string that will hold data like

"July 09, 2005 at 10:00 am"

and I need to post it as a hidden value from one form to the next.

What's the easiest way to get the comma, colon and spaces to make it through?

intenz

addslashes() and stripslashes() 😉

mikeycorn

Cool, thanks!

(I was about to start using the Replace statement, but those two statements are what I really needed.)

mikeycorn

Actually, it's cutting it off at the comma.

I try to send over July, 31 2005 and I get July

leatherback

You do place "" around the value, do you?

Because this should work just fine.

mikeycorn

Here's what I had to do to get the commas and spaces through:

  $date_and_time = str_replace(",", "-", $date_and_time);
  $date_and_time = str_replace(" ", "_", $date_and_time);

  echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"date_and_time\" value={$date_and_time}>";

-----

  $date_and_time = str_replace("-", ",", $date_and_time);
  $date_and_time = str_replace("_", " ", $date_and_time);

  echo "Congratulations!!!<br><br>
    Your reservations are confirmed for $date_and_time<br><br>";

Actually, the addslashes and stripslashes weren't necessary because there weren't any quotes in the string.

Originally posted by leatherback
You do place "" around the value, do you?

<input type="hidden" value="July, 31 2005">

Because this should work just fine.

J.

Oh my, I was working with a string and didn't realize that was what I was missing. Maybe it's easier then if I add the quotes (with slash?) to the string . . .

mikeycorn

  echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"date_and_time\" value=\"{$date_and_time}\">";

Much easier, thanks!