how to code this line (ironic)

phrodo

How do I code this value:

so that when my script processes $line that it emails

this, only this and nothing but this:

I have tried escaping this and that and have had various results

thanks

toplay

Well, it's easier just to send that "img src" value at the time of sending the email (since it might not be changing).

But if you still want it hidden in the form, then look into using:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

when populating the hidden field.

Then on the receiving script that will look at the "line" value, use this:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

hth.

wad

Wouldn't it be simpler to pass the filename you want to have as the image?

Instead of:

<input type="hidden" name="line" value="<img src="http://slclimo.com/line.gif" width=400 height=2>">

to return:

<img src="http://slclimo.com/line.gif" width=400 height=2>

You could have:

<input type="hidden" name="line" value="www.slclimo.com/line.gif">

to return:

$line = "http://". $HTTP_POST_VARS['line'];

and then just echo your img line like this:

echo ("<img src=\"". $line ."\" width=\"400\" height=\"2\">");

If you need to pass the image name as well as the height and width, you can try:

<input type="hidden" name="line" value="www.slclimo.com/line.gif,400,2">

and then:

$imageVars = explode($HTTP_POST_VARS['line'], ",");
$imageName = "http://". $imageVars[0];
$imageWidth = $imageVars[1];
$imageHeight = $imageVars[2];

echo ("<img src=\"". $imageName ."\" width=\"". $imageWidth ."\" height=\"". $imageHeight ."\">");

If you are looking to return simply the <img> line (as the literal characters, not actual HTML), then use the above example, with the following change:

$imgString = htmlentities("<img src=\"". $imageName ."\" width=\"". $imageWidth ."\" height=\"". $imageHeight ."\">");

I may have got slightly off topic, but I think that's what you were looking to do.

justsomeone

you could also replace the < and > with some other characters which you know won't appear in reality, maybe [ and ], and then replace them back when you read in $line.