Adding apostrophe into a value = problem

[wanted66]

Hi Guys,

I have a small problem. Don't know how to fix it,

Ok I have a file called data.php where I have

$name = 'Fiona Oleary';

I have another file called site.php where I have Included this data.php

I call this by print ("$name");

It works. But the problem comes when I add a apostrophe ' in the name,

Say If I put the name value as Fiona O'leary it doesn't work. I think its because having 2 apostrophes in value.

How to overcome this ? I'm new to PHP any help please ? 🙂

[NogDog]

It would help to know the specific code that is failing, but if it is the variable assignment code, you can escape the apostrophe in the string literal:

$name = 'Conan O\'Brian';

Or, you could use double quotes around the string, so that escaping is not needed:

$name = "Peter O'Toole";

Then again, the problem might be elsewhere, in which case we need more info/code.

[wanted66]

I used $name = "Peter O'Toole"; and it worked 😃

Thank you. Hope I wont get banned for asking simple questions. Sorry I'm very new 🙂

This is a great forum got 2 questions answered instantly 🙂 Thanks.

[scraff]

If you are doing this dynamically, (or for anyone else finding this thread) you can use the str_replace:

$name = str_replace('"', '"', $name );

OR

$name = str_replace("'", "\'", $name );