Removing double quotes from output

[wscreate]

I am having a devil of a time with double quotes. I have a forum on my site that I created and it takes textual input from a text field in a form and stores it in a database. It then displays the data from that field on a web page, just like a web forum might do.

The problem I have is, a customer sometimes puts in a double quotation mark ( " ) and then the output gets skewed.

I want to do two things.

1. When a customer puts a double quote in their text, I want to strip it out before it gets inserted into the database.

2. For existing text already there, I want to strip out the double quotes whenever it is displayed.

Here is what I have to format the text thus far....

// TEXT FORMATTING
$theText2 = nl2br($theText2); 
$theText2 = ereg_replace("<br />", "", $theText2);
$theText2 = ereg_replace("\r", "", $theText2);
$theText2 = ereg_replace("\n", "", $theText2);
$theText2 = ereg_replace("'", "&#039", $theText2);
$theText2 = ereg_replace("<wbr>", "", $theText2);
$theText2 = ereg_replace("&lt;wbr&gt;", "", $theText2);

$theText2 = strip_tags($theText2, "<a><b><i><u><br>");

$theText2 = eregi_replace( "'", '"', $theText2 ); 

I have also tried htmlentities, but with no avail. I have looked far and wide on various forums at various times and I have RTM, but I cannot conquer this problem without assistance.

Thanks in advance.

[devinemke]

wscreate wrote:

The problem I have is, a customer sometimes puts in a double quotation mark ( " ) and then the output gets skewed.

skewed how? since double quotes are the delimiters for HTML tag attributes if you wish to display them within an HTML tag attribute you must run the data through [man]htmlspecialchars[/man]. also be mindful that your data must be run thru [man]addslashes[/man] before it is inserted to the db (though this may happen automagically depending on your magic quotes settings).