using fwrite to write quotes ( " ) into a text file, please help!

samsunnyuk

Hi I'm writing a script for for a website i've made someone so they can add hyperlinks to the "Links" page of the site. So ive made a form wher they enter a website address, site name, etc and thats submitted to a php page which uses fwrite to add the info to a txt file (which is displayed on the "Links" page), anyway hopfully you get what i mean.

Now my problem is that hyperlinks have quotes in them ( " ) and fwrite wont let me write quotes to the text file ! (error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"' ......)

Is there anyway I can get around this problem?! If not then could someone suggest another solution for adding hyperlinks to a page?

Thanks

rincewind456

[man]addslashes/man may help.

samsunnyuk

thanks ive looked at it but i dont really understand (i'm new to php) . Can someone solve my problem? Thanks

benbox

It's because when PHP finds the speech marks, it thinks the string ends there.. so you can put a backward slash infront of it to say "ignore this next speech mark"..

For example,

print "This is some "text with speech marks" that I want to print";

would return the error, I think the one you mentioned...

but if you had: -

print "This is some \"text with speech marks\" that I want to print";

Then it would work, as the \ tells PHP to ignore the "

So instead of you doing all that manually, add slashes would do it for you.. by entering your variable with the data such as this:

print addslashes("$myString");

Alternatively, I think this should also work.. as if you have a set of " marks.. whats inside is parsed.. but if you have a single one ' it is taken literally, as text..

print 'This is some "text with speech marks" that I want to print';

samsunnyuk

ah thanks thats sorted it 😃