Apostroph.

Anon

Hi.

I've got a question.
How can I replace apostrophs from a variable?
I tried to get it with
$text = ereg_replace ("\", "", $text);
but I only get a warning in that line.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Julia

examancer

the code should look more like this:

$text = ereg_replace ("'", "", $text);

Anon

Oh, I am sorry.
I wanted to write something else.

I want replace "\'" with "'", but
I can't catch the Backslash.
So I wanted to know how to do that.

Sorry and thanks!

Julia

examancer

in php a backslash () is used when you want to use special characters, if you put a backlash before something, it is telling php to ignore whatever special meanings the next character has, so if you want to use a quote in php and you don't want it messing up the code you have to use \", and to use a backslash you have to use two backslashes (\)

so the code would go like this:

$text = ereg_replace("\'","",$text);

that will catch any occurance of a backslash followed by an apostraphe, to replace all backslahes AND apostraphe's (not just when they are one after the other) you need code like this:

$text = ereg_replace("[\']","",$text);

or at least i think thats correct...

Anon

Thank you.
It worked perfectly.

Julia

sfullman

please investigate the stripslashes() function.

As a note of experience, sounds like you're populating a form with database values. You'll also want to do this: replace double quote characters (") with either " or "". Here's why:

If the value in your database is--

I said, don't you recall, that "You can't come!"

and you populate the form with it, you'll see this in HTML:

But the user will only see this much in the input field:

I said, don't you recall, that

Because HTML thinks the first " is the end.

If however you convert the " to ", the text will actually go to the HTML form element (input) as the original value:

Which will produce:

I said, don't you recall, that "You can't come!"

So remember: PHP will put in the backslashes where necessary to go INTO the database, you need to strip the slashes and replace the quotes coming OUT of the database.

examancer

I always feel so accomplished when people say things like "thanks, it work perfectly"... doesn't happen that often, but when it does, I feel very accomplished.