The problem seems to be solved.
Some suggestions didn't work, in my application at least, but what I found from
a combination of them was that I can eliminate the problem using a character
entity for the apostrophe. It prints a single quote but does not parse as a
single quote.
$text = (stripslashes($text));
$text = ereg_replace("'","'",$text);
It doesn't work in one shot (ie \' to `).
Further; I originally placed the apostrophes into the database field as they
were, without escaping them with slashes. I have since added slashes. However
converting ' to ' may eliminate the need for add/strip slashes? I have to
try that.
Many tnx to Anne and all.
Floyd
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:36:36 -0600, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Floyd Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>>
>> Hello and thanks to all for the help on the magic quotes, etc.
>> It gives me a better handle on what I'm dealing with.
>>
>> Except for one more thing.
>>
>> When I bring back text from a field which contains a ', and try to apply
>it as
>> the value of an input box, it still truncates in the box.
>>
>> When I simply print $text, it prints out correctly as *Don't do this* .
>> When I make $text the default value of an input box, it shows as *Don*.
>>
>> If the slash is still in place, it reads *Don\'t* above the box and *Don\*
>in
>> the box.
>>
>> My bugaboo continues.. :->
>>
>> Thanks again for any further advice.
>>
>> Floyd
>>
>
>That's a problem with HTML.
>example:
><input type='text' name='textName' value='Don't do this'>
>Sees the ' in Don't as the signal for the end of the value string.
>I haven't come up with an automatic way to deal with this,
>but what I have done is in these lines (where there might be an apostrophe)
>make sure I use double quotes:
><input type="text" name="textName" value="Don't do this">
>or
>print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"textName\" value=\"Don't do this\">";
>
>Of course, then you may have the same trouble with double quotes. To avoid
>that you can do ereg_replace("\"", "''", $text) -- that is, replace a double
>quote with two single quotes? I think, I've never bothered.
>
>Hope this helps somehow.
>
>Anna
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