On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:43:29 -0400, John W. Holmes wrote:
> Robb Kerr wrote:
>> I've got a conditional button that needs to appear/hide on my page
>> depending upon the contents of a field in my database. The button is an
>> image and has a long URL and JavaScript for image rotation attached to it.
>> Needless to say, the href is quite long and includes several "'"
>> characters. My conditional works great but I want to know if there is an
>> easy way to escape the whole href so that the "'" characters will not be
>> seen as PHP quote marks. See below...
>>
>> <?php
>> if ($recordset['field'] != "1") {
>> echo '<a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"
>> onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('PreviousPage','','/URL/ButtonName.gif',1)"><img
>> src="/URL/ButtonName.gif" alt="Previous Page" name="Previous Page"
>> width="150" height="20" border="0"></a>;
>> ?>
>
> It looks like you're trying to echo a string that's delimited by single
> quote marks, but I don't see a single quote at the end of the string.
> Assuming this is what you want, though, to escape single quotes within
> the string you're trying to echo, put a backslash \ character before them.
>
> <?php
> if ($recordset['field'] != "1") {
> echo '<a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"
> onMouseOver="MM_swapImage(\'PreviousPage\',\'\',\'/URL/ButtonName.gif\',1)"><img
> src="/URL/ButtonName.gif" alt="Previous Page" name="Previous Page"
> width="150" height="20" border="0"></a>';
> ?>
>
> Alternatively, you can just use double quotes in your JavaScript
> MM_swapImage() function...
Thanx. That's the escape character I needed. But, I've choosen to use the
style Brent suggested above. It'll be easier than remembering to escape
every single quote character.
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