pasting quotes from db inside a textarea

[anarchoi]

i have a stupid problem:

 

i'm echo'ing an entry from my database that has quotes inside it, so it stops at the first quotes because it breaks the textarea's value="$myvar"

 

how can i paste the text with quotes, keeping them intact, inside of a textbox?

[pocobueno1388]

the textarea tag doesn't have a value attribute, you would do this:

 

echo "<textarea>$value</textarea>";

[papaface]

You should do:

echo "<textarea>".htmlentities($value, ENT_QUOTES)."</textarea>";

[thebadbad]

I'm guessing you're doing this to be able to edit the entry, and then do an UPDATE query. In that case, use htmlspecialchars() and a user defined function unhtmlspecialchars(), to keep the data intact.

 

When echoing from the database, use htmlspecialchars(), and before inserting the data back in, use unhtmlspecialchars:

 

function unhtmlspecialchars($string) {

$string = str_replace('&', '&', $string);

$string = str_replace('"', '"', $string);

$string = str_replace('<', '<', $string);

$string = str_replace('>', '>', $string);

return $string;

}

 

I refuse to use the [ code ] tags, since they break the ampersands