Replace quotes

[zzz]

I have a place on a page where I output text from db into JavaScript. Everything works until I get quotation marks in the text -- that throws JS into a mess.

Now I was able to resolve the issue with single quotes by running the string through this:

$pDesc  = str_replace ( "'", "´", $pDesc );

However the same experiment with the double quotes did not yield any results?

$pDesc  = str_replace ( '"', "´", $pDesc );

Any suggestions?

[devinemke]

zzz wrote:

Everything works until I get quotation marks in the text -- that throws JS into a mess.

how so? give a specific example.

[zzz]

Instead of executing JavaScript by placing text into the script, JS interprets quotation marks as part of the script and interrupts it. In other words -- I can not have quotes inside text output. I need either replace them somehow so that visibly text appears in tact or strip them all together, which technically will be messing with the proper text punctuation... but if that's the only way of making JS work without spilling its guts in the form of echoed code on my page, I'd do it.

[zzz]

Got it.

Copy from notes in the manual:

skatebiker at hotmail dot com
29-Jul-2005 07:05
Replacing a double quote in a string using the /e modifier in preg_replace() returns a backslash.

$string='\'"';

echo preg_replace('/(["\'])/ie', '"[".ord(\'$1\')."]"', $string);

Exprected result:
[39][34]
Result:
[39][92]

So the double quote is prepended by a backslash.

A workaround is :

echo preg_replace('/(["\'])/ie', '"[".ord(substr(\'$1\',-1))."]"', $string);

which returns the desired result for the double quote as well.

Thank you manual!

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[Roger_Ramjet]

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