[SOLVED] fwrite trouble

[matthewst]

I have this code:

<select name="header" size="1">
        <option value="">-- Select a header image --</option>
        <option value="<?php echo "<img src='../../styles/BBQ1.jpg'>" ?>">BBQ 1</option>
        <option value="<?php echo "<img src='../../styles/BBQ2.jpg'>" ?>">BBQ 2</option>
        <option value="<?php echo "<img src='../../styles/BBQ3.jpg'>" ?>">BBQ 3</option>
        <option value="<?php echo "<img src='../../styles/Garden1.jpg'>" ?>">Garden 1</option>
        <option value="<?php echo "<img src='../../styles/Gray1.jpg'>" ?>">Gray 1</option>
        <option value="<?php echo "<img src='../../styles/Wine1.jpg'>" ?>">Wine1</option>
        </select>

 

pointing to this code on another page:

$stringData = "<table width='60%' height='95%' border='0'><tr><td colspan='2' align='center' height='75px'>$header";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);

 

it keeps adding backslashes to the string:

<table width='60%' height='95%' border='0'><tr><td colspan='2' align='center' height='75px'><img src=\'../../styles/BBQ3.jpg\' />

right after src= and right after bbq3.jpg

 

Any one know where they're coming from?

[pocobueno1388]

There is an extra backslash at the end of the image, I will make it bold.

 

<img src=\'../../styles/BBQ3.jpg\' />

 

Try taking that out.

[Jessica]

poco, that is required by XHTML standards, it's the closing tag for an image.

 

matthew those slashes can be removed with http://php.net/stripslashes

[matthewst]

checking on strip slashes now

 

 

[matthewst]

OK, magic quotes is on so I have no choice but to use stripslashes. I've never used it before so I'm not sure where to put it. Does it go in my drop down menu or on the fwrite page?

 

[matthewst]

I tried:

stripslashes ($header);
$stringData = "<table width='60%' height='95%' border='0'><tr><td colspan='2' align='center' height='75px'>$header";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);

and this:

$stringData = "<table width='60%' height='95%' border='0'><tr><td colspan='2' align='center' height='75px'>$header";
stripslashes ($stringData);
fwrite($fh, $stringData);

but it doesn't do anything.

[Jessica]

If you don't want to use magic quotes at all (which I recommend not using it) You can turn magic quotes gpc and runtime off using http://php.net/ini_set or if you have access to your php.ini file, in there.

 

I don't quite see where you're even writing that variable, so it's hard to see where to use it. Your code doesn't make sense to me.

I guess use it on your fwrite part?

 

edit: you have to assign it to a new string. $header = stripslashes($header). See in the manual that it returns a string?

[matthewst]

You fricken rock. My code probably doesn't make sense to you because I put the oob in noob.

 

Thanks!!

[Jessica]

No problem lol