printing ' " ' inside value=" "

[mamil]

Hi all,
I got this variable as a result of fetching data from db:
$row["desc"]='something "+" bla "z"';
I want to use this variable in a form in following way:

$output .= '<input type=text name=desc value="'.$row["desc"].'">';

However I got only 'something ' inside input box as result of printing $output; it seems that first ' " ' before '+' is recognized as a closing of value="...
How can avoid this and get whole string inside textbox? (I tried unsucessfully with urlencode/decode and addslashes/stripslashes)

Thanks for any help,
Mamil

[andriy]

Try to replace '"' in $output by '\"'
with the use of regular expressions.

[mamil]

i tried:
$output = ereg_replace('"','\"',$output)
or $output = ereg_replace('"','\"',$output)
but neither of them worked well...

[marcel]

I'm using something like:
$new_output = str_replace('"', '&amp;#34', $output)

and go with $new_output

34 is decimal code of "

PM