[RESOLVED] Apostrophe in <option>

[Square1]

Hi all:

I have a drop down field with a variable in it. the variable may contain an apostrophe. This is causing problems.

Here is the code:

echo "<option value='".$row['player']."|".$row['plID']."'>".$row['player']."</option>/r/n";

Here is the source code:

<option value=''Ace' Parker|0cf9bbe0b9a00b27d93ef14a0bd5a9db8ec3a1ef'>'Ace' Parker</option>

When 'Ace' Parker is the player variable that first apostrophe closes the <option value>.

I have tried addslashes, htmlentities and strip slashes. Not sure what the right trick is for this. I see a lot of info for adding the vaibale to MySQL but nothing for this.

Any help appreciated

[Square1]

I pulled the <option> out the of the PHP tags and that worked, but is there a way to do it with PhP?

[dagon]

htmlspecialchars

echo "<option value='".htmlspecialchars($row['player'])."|".$row['plID']."'>".$row['player']."</option>/r/n"; 

[traq]

...sorry; delete this post please

[Square1]

Thank you again dagon!