[SOLVED] How the echo "

[garethhall]

Hello I am on an update page but I cant seem to get the data in the text field. So say we have the following code how could I get the value populated when the text contains " and '. Say I have a book $title = 'The "Big" cat's'

 

Is there a addslases function I can use?

 

<input type="text" name="book" value="<?php echo $title?>" /> // this don't work
<input type="text" name="book" value='<?php echo $title?>' /> // this to don't work

[nuttycoder]

try <input type="text" name="book" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" /> it was missing the ;

[thebadbad]

try <input type="text" name="book" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" /> it was missing the ;

 

The semi-colon is not required when the PHP closing tag appears on the same line. But I would use it anyway.

 

@OP

You want to use htmlentities():

 

<input type="text" name="book" value="<?php echo htmlentities($title); ?>" />

Can't remember if you need to run html_entity_decode() on the value later though.

[Garethp]

Um, you'd use

 

$title = 'The "Big" cat\'s';

 

or

 

$title = "The \"Big\" cat's";

[nuttycoder]

try <input type="text" name="book" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" /> it was missing the ;

 

The semi-colon is not required when the PHP closing tag appears on the same line. But I would use it anyway.

 

I din't know that learn something new everyday still woulden't do it that way, same as I never use <?=$title;?>

[thebadbad]

try <input type="text" name="book" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" /> it was missing the ;

 

The semi-colon is not required when the PHP closing tag appears on the same line. But I would use it anyway.

 

I din't know that learn something new everyday still woulden't do it that way, same as I never use <?=$title;?>

 

Same here. Good on ya.

 

@Garethp

You misunderstood the OP. Your code would still mess up the HTML.