Data in a text box

Anon

echo '
<input type="Text" MAXLENGTH=8 name="name" value="';echo$field;echo ' " >
';

This is the current line I am using to display the content of a database table into text boxes for updating. This works great as long as the field contains no quotes. Is there something like the addslashes to allow me to display the content in a text box

Second question. I have been trying to do the same idea with a textarea but Im not getting that to work at all

thanks

Anon

well, a text area looks like this:

Anon

Try the "Here Document" stuff...

begin like this:

echo <<<FOO <---- note: no semicolon here
All your text and code can go here even HTML tags, double quotes, PHP variables, whatever you want! It's a happy medium. The "FOO" keyword can be whatever you want it to be, as long as it's the same at the beginning and end of this block, AND that word is no where else on your page. Then end it like this:
<<<FOO;

NOTE:
The close 'tag' (<<<END) MUST be on a line of it's own, with no LEADING OR TRAILING whitespace.

Hope this helps

Anon

Correction to that last note i posted...

the "<<<FOO;" 'tag' needs to be on its own line, no leading or trailing whitespace...

My last message said that the (<<<END) tag needs to be this way, so it was sorta confusing to read - oops... email me if you have questions!

Anon

Im not sure at all what this means.

Do I just enclose the form with <<<foo and when I use a variable with a quote it should work.

Right now if a field has a quote and it is being used to display in a textbox the quote is closing the value attribute.

Not sure if that makes sence

Anon

Here's what you originally asked about:

echo '
<input type="Text" MAXLENGTH=8 name="name" value="';echo$field;echo ' " >
';

Here's what I'm saying you should try:

echo <<<foo
<input type="Text" MAXLENGTH=8 name="name" value=$field">
<<<foo;

As for a textarea, i dunno... should work the same I imagine... hopes this helped.

Anon

Still having problems, I tried this foo thing and I got:
Parse error: parse error, expecting ','' or';''

If I use:
echo '
<input type="Text" MAXLENGTH=8 name="name" value=" ';echo $col_8; echo ' " >

Then I don't get an error but when it comes to the quote (") in the field it closes down the value and does not display it right.

phpMyAdmin will display the value right and when I look at the HTML output it looks like this, Im not sure if I should be looking at doing something like this or not.

<input type=text name=fields[picture] value="<IMG SRC="abc.jpg"

Anon

Just use this code:

<?php
echo <<<END
<input type="Text" MAXLENGTH=8 name="name" value=$field">
<<<END;
?>

It should work fine... just make sure the last line of this code (<<<END😉 has no leading or trailing whitespace! Hope it works... if not, EMAIL me what your code is, and i'll see what i can do.

~SteveJMU