[PHP] addslashes Question

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff Oien
I have a form to modify a record in a MySQL database. The record contains this: 3" Brush The code in question is like this: while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $desc1 = $row['desc1']; -- "> I've tried using addslashes to the variable in various ways and it always returns: 3\

Re: [PHP] addslashes Question

2001-03-21 Thread Tobias Talltorp
This seems to be more of a HTML problem. Form fields simply canĀ“t print out ". You need to change the " to " in order for it to appear. This can be done using the function htmlspecialchars(): http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php In your case: "> You can test these two thing

Re: [PHP] addslashes Question

2001-03-21 Thread Hardy Merrill
Jeff, here's what I do: 1. set magic_quotes_gpc On in php.ini * this will automatically quote all GET, POST, and COOKIE variables - read up on magic_quotes_gpc. 2. at the top of each script, stripslashes all the COOKIE, GET, and POST variables, since they will have been