Simple Shoutbox Felp.

[Mailik]

Hey guys. I'm really sorry if this comes across as such a noob question.

 

What it is, is that I have a basic shoutbox. And when I type in things such as "Didn't" It appears as "Didn/'t" And I'm just wondering on how to fix it so that it doesn't do that, I thought about a filteration where when people did typed " ' " it would replace " ' " with nothing. But felt that this wasn't resolving the problem, maybe shoving it aside. And even if it did fix the problem, I couldn't get it to work.

 

Here is what I have, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

<?php

$name = $_POST['Name']; 	
$email = $_POST['Email'];		
$comments = $_POST['Comments'];
$timedate = date("M d, Y (g:i a)", time() + 7200);

if ($name == "" or $comments == "") {
echo "Your name or comment was left blank! Try again. <br /><br />";
} else {
$oldinfo = file_get_contents("data.txt");
$guestbookdata = fopen("data.txt", "w+");
fwrite($guestbookdata, "<table><td><div class=\"post\"><b>Name:</b> <a href=\"mailto:{$email}\">{$name}</a> <br> <b>Time:</b> <em>{$timedate}</em> <br />\n");
fwrite($guestbookdata, "<b>Comments:</b><br> $comments <br><br></td></table></div>\n \n");
fwrite($guestbookdata, "$oldinfo");
fclose($guestbookdata);
}
?>

[Brian W]

Add this to the top of the page. Let us know what happens.

<?php if(get_magic_quotes_gpc() != 0){ die("Magic quotes is on!"); } else { echo "not the problem"; } ?>

[irkevin]

wouldnt this be fine using strislashes?

[Brian W]

assuming that magic_quotes_gpc is on, then yes, you'd use stripslashes() like so

$name = stripslashes($_POST['Name']   
$email = stripslashes($_POST['Email']
$comments = stripslashes($_POST['Comments']

[irkevin]

wow i never knew that stipslashes depends on magic_quotes_gpc :s ... in this case, i believe most servers have this on by default.. If im not mistaken..

[Mailik]

Hi, thanks for helping out.

I added the code that you gave me and get the message 'Magic quotes is on!'

 

So I tried using the stripslashes code afterwards that you had posted. So the code I have now looks like;

 

<?php

$name = stripslashes($_POST['Name']   
$email = stripslashes($_POST['Email']
$comments = stripslashes($_POST['Comments']
$timedate = date("M d, Y (g:i a)", time() + 7200);

if ($name == "" or $comments == "") {
   echo "Your name or comment was left blank! Try again. <br /><br />";
} else {
   $oldinfo = file_get_contents("data.txt");
   $guestbookdata = fopen("data.txt", "w+");
   fwrite($guestbookdata, "<table><td><div class=\"post\"><b>Name:</b> <a href=\"mailto:{$email}\">{$name}</a> <br> <b>Time:</b> <em>{$timedate}</em> <br />\n");
   fwrite($guestbookdata, "<b>Comments:</b><br> $comments <br><br></td></table></div>\n \n");
   fwrite($guestbookdata, "$oldinfo");
   fclose($guestbookdata);
}
?>

 

When I go to post, I get the error

"Parse error: parse error in post.php on line 5"

[irkevin]

the semicolumn should be after

 

$name = stripslashes($_POST['Name']);
$email = stripslashes($_POST['Email']);
$comments = stripslashes($_POST['Comments']);

[Brian W]

stripslashes() is not dependent on it, its a way of neutralizing the effects of it.

If magic_quotes_gpc is off, you wouldn't need to use strip slashes (in this case) but strip slashes would still work on a string.

Sorry I sent you the code with the ")" outside the semicolon. Need more coffee or new glasses, or both :-)