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not seeing single quotes and double quotes in php. Appear as ? instead.

raj
Hi all,

I'm using this code to import some a .txt files onto a webpage, but I
keep seeing single quotes amd double quotes as question marks.

Here's the code:

<textarea disabled="disab led" name="textarea2 " cols="70" rows="7"
wrap="virtual"> <?php addslashes(incl ude("../license/license.txt")); ?>
</textarea>

Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong?

Thank you in advance,

Raj (newbie)

Jun 2 '08 #1
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raj wrote:
Hi all,

I'm using this code to import some a .txt files onto a webpage, but I
keep seeing single quotes amd double quotes as question marks.

Here's the code:

<textarea disabled="disab led" name="textarea2 " cols="70" rows="7"
wrap="virtual"> <?php addslashes(incl ude("../license/license.txt")); ?>
</textarea>

Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong?

Thank you in advance,

Raj (newbie)

addslashes() is the wrong function in this case. Look at
htmlspecialchar s() or htmlentities()

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Jun 2 '08 #2
raj escribió:
I'm using this code to import some a .txt files onto a webpage, but I
keep seeing single quotes amd double quotes as question marks.

Here's the code:

<textarea disabled="disab led" name="textarea2 " cols="70" rows="7"
wrap="virtual"> <?php addslashes(incl ude("../license/license.txt")); ?>
</textarea>
I'd say you've written license.txt with some word processor like
Microsoft Word and it uses quotes like “foo” and ‘bar’ (rather than
"foo" and 'bar'). You must convert the file into whatever charset your
site uses (typically ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8, but I can't assure). If you
don't have a good text editor that can do it for you, you can use
iconv() in PHP. Or simple change the quotes manually.

Also, you must replace < and with &lt; and &gt; entities. You can use
htmlspecialchar s() for the task but you can't apply functions to the
output of include! You need to fetch the file with a function that
returns a string, such as file_get_conten ts().
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