redisplaying apostraphes and double quotes...

[Randell D.]

I've solved this problem once before but for the life of me these past
couple of hours have got me nowhere... I hope someone can help...

I have one form split in two... so the user can switch back and forth, the
values of form B are hidden in form A, and the values of form A are hidden
in B using

<input type=hidden name=variable value='the variables value'>

I have found things work fine until I include an apostraphe - anything after
the apostraphe gets ignored...

I know why the problem occurs, and I know that I should/could use addslashes
and stripslashes to solve... but I've tried and I guess I'm not doing it
right...

When I enter

one two 'three' four

I only get

one two
This is what I have done... On form A I have

$mydata['mytext']=addslashes($_POST['mytext']);

and when its submitted, form B has it

<input type=hidden name=mytext value='one two \'three\' four'>

when I go back to form A and attempt to redisplay mytext this is what the
html looks like

<textarea name="article" cols="45" rows="10">one two \\</textarea>
Can someone tell me where I am going wrong?

thanx

[uws]

I <EL***********************@news2.calgary.shaw.ca >, Randell D. skrev:

<input type=hidden name=mytext value='one two \'three\' four'>
[sni[
Can someone tell me where I am going wrong?

First of all, fix your HTML. It's totally invalid. It should look like this:

<input type="hidden" name="mytext" value="your value">

You can produce the above code by using code similar to:

<?php echo '<input type="hidden" name="mytext" value="' . htmlentities('your value') . '">'; ?>

Hope this helps.

mvrgr, Wouter (Read about escaping characters in The Fine Manual!)

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[Randell D.]

"uws" <uw*@xs4all.invalid> wrote in message
news:im******************************@uwsworld.xs4 all.nl...

I <EL***********************@news2.calgary.shaw.ca >, Randell D. skrev:

<input type=hidden name=mytext value='one two \'three\' four'>
[sni[
Can someone tell me where I am going wrong?
First of all, fix your HTML. It's totally invalid. It should look like

this:
<input type="hidden" name="mytext" value="your value">

You can produce the above code by using code similar to:

<?php echo '<input type="hidden" name="mytext" value="' . htmlentities('your value') . '">'; ?>
Hope this helps.

mvrgr, Wouter (Read about escaping characters in The Fine Manual!)

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:wq mail uw*@xs4all.nl
it's the last day on earth :: we'll never say goodbye -- marilyn

manson
Thanx... got it... I had done it once before but I think I'm just over
tired as I had problems concentrating earlier...

cheers,
randell d.