[SOLVED] Question about Form Fields

[JSHINER]

$var = "The length is 5' x 2" and blah blah";

 

<input type="text" name="textBox" value="<?php echo $var; ?>">

 

In the <input> this cuts off at the ' if I do value='' and the " if I do value ="" and at either if I just do value=

 

How do I get around this?

[KevinM1]

$var = "The length is 5' x 2" and blah blah";

 

<input type="text" name="textBox" value="<?php echo $var; ?>">

 

In the <input> this cuts off at the ' if I do value='' and the " if I do value ="" and at either if I just do value=

 

How do I get around this?

 

You need to escape the quote that would otherwise cause the string to terminate:

$var = "The length is 5' x 2\" and blah blah blah";

[JSHINER]

It's not the string that's terminating it's the <input> field.

[Maq]

It's not the string that's terminating it's the field.

 

Nightlsyr is right.  The $var is in the field and has a " that needs to be escaped otherwise is terminates the input field.

[Zhadus]

It is the input field, it's not actually a PHP related question - it's straight HTML.

 

Don't you just LOVE HTML?

 

By the way, here is a quick fix, use the HTML code for the double quotation:

$var = "The length is 5' x 2" and blah blah";

It will output correctly for you and show up right, just a pain to work with.

 

EDIT:

" might work in place of " and a bit easier to use.

[Maq]

Don't you just LOVE HTML?

 

no 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

To put characters that have meaning in HTML into form field value parameters, you need to convert the special characters to HTML entities so that they are not operated on by the browser when it renders the page - http://us3.php.net/htmlentities

[JSHINER]

I hate HTML

 

But, that fixed it. Thanks!

[kenrbnsn]

Here's where you want to use the htmlentities() function:

<?php
$var = "The length is 5' x 2\" and blah blah";
?>
<input type="text" name="textBox" value="<?php echo htmlentities($var, ENT_QUOTES); ?>">

 

Ken