[RESOLVED] Quote Within A Quote

Lord_Pickle

Here is my code:
<html>
<body>

<?php print "<a href='login.php' onmouseout='MM_swapImgRestore()' onmouseover='MM_swapImage('Image5','','images/siteImages/buttonLogInOver.gif',1)'>"; ?>

</body>
</html>
The Java "onmouseover" statement has quotes inside the php quotes. I tried putting \'s in it - (\'Image5\',\'\',\'images/siteImages/buttonLogInOver.gif\',1)\' - but this doesnt seem to work.
Any ideas?
I searched for a previous post, but found none. Sorry if this has already been posted.
Thanks guys

NogDog

You'll either need to add escaped backslashes ("\") so that they get included in the output, or use escaped double quotes within the JS, or you might find it cleaner to use the "heredoc" method of quoting:

// escaped backslashes:
print "<a href='login.php' onmouseout='MM_swapImgRestore()' onmouseover='MM_swapImage(\\'Image5\\',\\'\\',\\'images/siteImages/buttonLogInOver.gif\\',1)'>";
// escaped double-quotes:
print "<a href='login.php' onmouseout='MM_swapImgRestore()' onmouseover='MM_swapImage(\"Image5\",\"\",\"images/siteImages/buttonLogInOver.gif\",1)'>";
//heredoc method:
print <<<END
<a href='login.php' onmouseout='MM_swapImgRestore()' onmouseover='MM_swapImage("Image5","","images/siteImages/buttonLogInOver.gif",1)'>
END;

// note that the preceding END; line must have no leading white-space

NogDog

PS: Another option, drop out of PHP mode at that point and just type it as you would in plain HTML.

Lord_Pickle

Thanks NogDog, that worked great! But it only solved one of my problems. I have a similar one here:

print "<a href='addName.php?name=".$characterArray[$x]->name."'>".$characterArray[$x]->name."</a>"; ?>

When the "$characterArray[$x]->name" has an ' in it such as "Bob's House", my link gets name=Bob
It cuts off the rest of it. Got any ideas?
Thanks again.

NogDog

urlencode():

print "<a href='addName.php?name=".urlencode($characterArray[$x]->name).
"'>".$characterArray[$x]->name."</a>"; ?>

Lord_Pickle

Worked like a charm. Thanks again.

bradgrafelman

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