[SOLVED] white space creating problems in session variables

[mubashir]

i use session variables to store values submitted by the form for later retrieval.. but once i try to retrieve the values they get truncated where ever the white space is encoutered... e.g. if i submit the  value as "blood sample"..  n store it in session variabl.. once i try to retrieve the value it shows "blood" only ... anything after the white space is ingnored or truncated...

code snippet is like  this ...

//storing the values...

$tname=$_POST['tstname'];

$_SESSION['testname']=$tname;

..

 

//retrieve values...

<input type ="text" name ="tstname" value =<?php echo $_SESSION['testname']; ?>>

.

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any body knows wats the problem ...

thankx

 

[GingerRobot]

Actually, the whole string is still inside your session variable its an HTML problem. Try:

 

<input type ="text" name ="tstname" value ="<?php echo htmlentities($_SESSION['testname']); ?>">

 

Note the double quotes. Without surrounding your value in quotes, how is a browser supposed to know when the value ends and the next property begins? Hence why it makes an educated guess, and uses spaces.

 

Also, ive added the htmlentities() function there - otherwse you'll run into issues if your variable contains double quotes.

[mubashir]

i tried using double quotes also but didnt worked ....

even if i try to print outside form by simply using

echo "$_SESSION['testname']";

its still printing truncated values...

 

[GingerRobot]

Bizarre. Can we see some more of the code you are using?

[mubashir]

thankx guys ... it worked i was misusing the quotes .. still learning ...