[RESOLVED] Echo kills my slashes

nubs

For some reason whenever I run [ echo " " ] or [ echo $content; ] and $content has " " in it, it always outputs " " instead and it's driving me insane. It does the same to any inline tags including made of things like for example "<x />" will become "<x>." Ideas?

laserlight

That's weird. Okay, just to check:

<?php
echo "This is a slash: /";
?>

What output do you get?

By the way, note that backslashes, on the other hand, are used to denote escape sequences, so that could explain the problem if you were using backslashes, but here that should not be the case.

nubs

Running that yields:

This is a slash: /

laserlight

Right, so we know that not all slashes are stripped. Now try:

<?php
echo "This has a break<br /> embedded.";
?>

Upon viewing source, what output do you get?

Incidentally, it occurs to me that perhaps your web browser is showing you the processed client side source. What web browser (including version) are you using?

nubs

Running that gives me
"This has a break embedded." for the source code. I'm using Firefox 2.0.

bradgrafelman

Any chance you can give us a link to this page? If you're not comfortable sharing it with the rest of the world, you could PM it to me; I'd like to take a quick look at this first-hand.

nubs

Website: http://codevat.com/?page=blog

Content file that has breaks: http://codevat.com/blog

HalfaBee

You need to htmlentities() the < and > wrapping the posts.

nubs

HalfaBee, that's not what I want. I don't want the symbols to be displayed. The problem is that inside the HTML echo is supposed to outbut " " as part of the HTML, NOT to be displayed. So inside my HTML gets converted to which invalidates my page.

bradgrafelman

Not sure what you're talking about... it looks fine to me:

<div class = 'post'><h3 class = 'title'>Round Two
</h3><h4 class = 'date'>2008.06.18.18:29
</h4><p>Break<br />Is<br />Still<br />Broken.
</p></div>

nubs

Wow, you're right... it does come out fine and even validates. That's a head scratcher. Was unaware firefox did that. Maybe it's one of the plugins I have. Thanks to everyone.

laserlight

I am using Firefox 3 and it comes out fine, as in bradgrafelman's observation. It may indeed be an extension.