How to escape spaces

Tonata

Hi all,
I want to transfere data from my form to a third party form, but im having trouble escaping spaces. for example. if a user enters Street Address as "10 Home Street", it only prints "10" but not the whole address, in other words it only prints the 1st letter

bradgrafelman

How are you transferring the data? Outputting HTML? Simulating a POST (e.g. using cURL)? Something else?

Tonata

Simulating a POST

	echo"<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"address1\"  value=".$_POST['billing_address'].">";

Tonata

I got it, all i had to do is add the single quotes

	echo"<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"address1\"  value='".$_POST['billing_address']."'>";

Thanks

bradgrafelman

Er, you mean the one before that - "outputting HTML".

In your case, the problem comes from the fact that you're outputting invalid HTML. All attributes must have quote-delimited values; your value attribute is missing quotes.

Also note that you should be using something like [man]htmlentities/man when outputting user-supplied data into HTML markup so as to prevent the user data from breaking your HTML.