Help with form field

[Michael Satterwhite]

I Have a form field that needs to have a " character as part of the value.
It's being build by PHP, but I'm missing something. Consider:

$item = '"Houston, TX"';
print '<input type="text" name="City" value="' . $item . '" size="0"
maxlength="' . "$cityLen" . '">

Obviously, this is not going to work as the value clause would be expanded
to

value=""Houston, TX""

How can I have this text field display "Houston, TX" (with the quote
character visible) in the text field.

[Ken Robinson]

Michael Satterwhite wrote:

I Have a form field that needs to have a " character as part of the value. It's being build by PHP, but I'm missing something. Consider:

$item = '"Houston, TX"';
print '<input type="text" name="City" value="' . $item . '" size="0" maxlength="' . "$cityLen" . '">

Obviously, this is not going to work as the value clause would be expanded to

value=""Houston, TX""

Use the functions htmlentities().

echo '<input type="text" name="City" value="' .
htmlentities($item,ENT_QUOTES);
echo '" size="0" maxlength="' . "$cityLen" . '">;

See <http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php> for more
information.

Ken

[John]

> How can I have this text field display "Houston, TX" (with the quote

character visible) in the text field.

well... have you tried to escape your quote characters (\") ?

--
john
www.realposition.com

[Michael Satterwhite]

Ken Robinson wrote:

Michael Satterwhite wrote:

I Have a form field that needs to have a " character as part of the

value.

It's being build by PHP, but I'm missing something. Consider:

$item = '"Houston, TX"';
print '<input type="text" name="City" value="' . $item . '"

size="0"

maxlength="' . "$cityLen" . '">

Obviously, this is not going to work as the value clause would be

expanded

to

value=""Houston, TX""

Use the functions htmlentities().

echo '<input type="text" name="City" value="' .
htmlentities($item,ENT_QUOTES);
echo '" size="0" maxlength="' . "$cityLen" . '">;

See <http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php> for more
information.

Ken

Thanks much. That solved the problem.