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Bob
I accept text, add_slashes, and store it in my MySQL DB. When I display
the text, I normally strip_slashes and also strip_tags. This all works
excepts for a field with double quotes. e.g.

"My Book's Title" is very simple

When I display this field, it is totally blank. What's the solution?

Oct 20 '06 #1
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"Bob" <bo**@whidbey.c omwrote in message
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>I accept text, add_slashes, and store it in my MySQL DB. When I display
the text, I normally strip_slashes and also strip_tags. This all works
excepts for a field with double quotes. e.g.

"My Book's Title" is very simple

When I display this field, it is totally blank. What's the solution?
I suppose html_entities(" My Book's Title"); would do the trick.

If you have an input like <input type="trext" value=""My Book's Title"", the
html parser assumes the value="", empty quotes, thus the totally blank input
field.

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Oct 20 '06 #2
Bob

Kimmo Laine wrote:
"Bob" <bo**@whidbey.c omwrote in message
news:11******** *************@i 42g2000cwa.goog legroups.com...
I accept text, add_slashes, and store it in my MySQL DB. When I display
the text, I normally strip_slashes and also strip_tags. This all works
excepts for a field with double quotes. e.g.

"My Book's Title" is very simple

When I display this field, it is totally blank. What's the solution?

I suppose html_entities(" My Book's Title"); would do the trick.

If you have an input like <input type="trext" value=""My Book's Title"", the
html parser assumes the value="", empty quotes, thus the totally blank input
field.
Thanks Kimmo - you explained the problem AND found the solution.
htmlentities worked!

Oct 20 '06 #3
Bob

Kimmo Laine wrote:
"Bob" <bo**@whidbey.c omwrote in message
news:11******** *************@i 42g2000cwa.goog legroups.com...
I accept text, add_slashes, and store it in my MySQL DB. When I display
the text, I normally strip_slashes and also strip_tags. This all works
excepts for a field with double quotes. e.g.

"My Book's Title" is very simple

When I display this field, it is totally blank. What's the solution?

I suppose html_entities(" My Book's Title"); would do the trick.

If you have an input like <input type="trext" value=""My Book's Title"", the
html parser assumes the value="", empty quotes, thus the totally blank input
field.
Thanks Kimmo - you explained the problem AND found the solution.
htmlentities worked!

Oct 20 '06 #4

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