James, Look into stripslashes(): http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php
and htmlspecialchars(): http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php Steven J. Walker Walker Effects www.walkereffects.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 11:08 AM, James Taylor wrote: > I'm having this one issue that's really bugging me - I have a textarea > where > you can type in something - After typing it in, it goes to another page > asking you to verify, if it's correct, it inserts it into a database. > > The page that asks you to verify holds the value of the textbox in a > hidden > form field. If the value the user entered in contains any single (') or > double (") quotes, it will mess everything up. Single quotes end up > having a > backslash thrown automatically in front of it, and it inserts it into > the > database WITH THE backslash. If there are double quotes, the HTML will > get > messed up due to the fact that when it sees the quote, it will cut off > the > rest of the value because if: > > value="this is an example: "Hello how are you"." > > > everything after example: is going to get cut off. > > I tried putting the value in a query string, but when traveling across > two > pages, it seems to do the exact same thing. > > Any suggestions? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php