PHP - Quote Marks

While playing with some code, I wrote these few lines of script.

$_SESSION["favcolor"] = green;

echo "Session variable is ". $_SESSION["favcolor"] ;

I tested the code and everything worked fine.
But then, I noticed an error in my coding: I had accidentally forgotten the QUOTES around the word GREEN.

I corrected the code

$_SESSION["favcolor"] = "green";

But when I tested it, the page would not open/load.

Then I removed the quote marks and restored the line to it's original state
 

$_SESSION["favcolor"] = green;

And things worked fine.

Shouldn't the quote marks be required?
Why am I having this issue?
Is it really an issue, or should I just accept that it works WITHOUT the quotes and be satisfied with that result?

Hi all,


I have an issue on a form that when it gets submitted a slash '/' appears before every quote symbol.
I had help solving the issue on one of the fields (the name field), but then later it was discovered that the slashes appear in all the fields whenever a quote was used (agreed, poor testing).

Can someone be so good to help me solve this? My php knowledge is not so great which is exactly why I'm asking here
Please see my code below. If this problem can be solved in the same manner as the name field was solved, then there are 2 files which will need the edits. They are below:
(some trivial information purposely removed for security reasons)

preview.php

<div id="card">
    <img id="logo" src="logo.jpg" />
    <div id="card1"><?php echo stripslashes($_REQUEST['text1']); ?>&nbsp;</div>
    <div id="card2"><?php echo $_REQUEST['text2']; ?>&nbsp;</div>
    <div id="card3"><?php echo $_REQUEST['text3']; ?>&nbsp;</div>
    <?php 
        if($_REQUEST['text4'] != '' && $_REQUEST['text5'] != '')
            $text = $_REQUEST['text4'].'&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;'.$_REQUEST['text5'];
        else
            $text = $_REQUEST['text4'].$_REQUEST['text5'];
    ?>
    <div id="card4"><?php echo $text; ?>&nbsp;</div>
    <div id="card5"><?php echo $_REQUEST['text6']; ?>&nbsp;</div>
</div> 

second_form.php
<?php
    session_start();
    $db_host = 'localhost';
    $db_name = '';
    $db_user = '';
    $db_pass = '';

   
   $admin_email = "admin@aserver.com";

if(isset($_REQUEST['text1'])) $_REQUEST['text1'] = stripslashes($_REQUEST['text1']);
   $from = 'orders@mycompany.com';

    if($_REQUEST['count'] != '50' && $_REQUEST['count'] != '100')
    {
        header( 'Location: order.php' );
        die();
    }

    $card_number = trim($_REQUEST['card_number']);
    $card_security = $_REQUEST['card_security'];
    $card_exp_m = sprintf("%02d",((int)$_REQUEST['car_exm_m'])%100);
    $card_exp_y = sprintf("%02d",((int)$_REQUEST['car_exm_y'])%100);

    $count = $_REQUEST['count'];
    $shipping = 8.65;
    $price = $shipping;
    switch($count)
    {
        case 50: $price += 25; break;
        case 100: $price += 38; break;
    }


//$price = 0.01;
//$shipping = 0.01;

    $price = sprintf("%0.2f",$price);




    $fd_xsd = 'http://***';
    $v1_xsd = 'http://***';
    $a1_xsd = 'https://***';

//$email_rep = str_replace('@','[at]',$_REQUEST['text4']);

    $soap = <<<SOAP
        <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
        <SOAP-ENV:Header />
        <SOAP-ENV:Body>
                <fdggwsapi:FDGGWSApiOrderRequest xmlns:fdggwsapi="$fd_xsd"  xmlns:v1="$v1_xsd">
                <v1:Transaction>
                    <v1:CreditCardTxType>
                        <v1:Type>sale</v1:Type>
                    </v1:CreditCardTxType>
                    <v1:CreditCardData>
                        <v1:CardNumber>$card_number</v1:CardNumber>
                        <v1:ExpMonth>$card_exp_m</v1:ExpMonth>
                        <v1:ExpYear>$card_exp_y</v1:ExpYear>
                    </v1:CreditCardData>
                    <v1:Payment>
                        <v1:ChargeTotal>$price</v1:ChargeTotal>
                        <v1:Shipping>$shipping</v1:Shipping>
                    </v1:Payment>
                    <v1:Billing>
                        <v1:Name>{$_REQUEST['text1']} - {$_REQUEST['text2']} - {$_REQUEST['text3']}</v1:Name>
                        <v1:Email>{$_REQUEST['text4']}</v1:Email>
                        <v1:Phone>{$_REQUEST['text5']}</v1:Phone>
                        <v1:Address2>{$_REQUEST['text5']}</v1:Address2>
                        <v1:Address1>{$_REQUEST['text6']}</v1:Address1>
                    </v1:Billing>
                    <v1:Shipping>
                        <v1:Name>{$_REQUEST['info_name']}</v1:Name>
                        <v1:Address1>{$_REQUEST['info_street']} {$_REQUEST['info_APT']}</v1:Address1>
                        <v1:City>{$_REQUEST['info_city']}</v1:City>
                        <v1:State>{$_REQUEST['info_state']}</v1:State>
                        <v1:Zip>{$_REQUEST['info_zip']}</v1:Zip>
                    </v1:Shipping>

                </v1:Transaction>
            </fdggwsapi:XXXApiOrderRequest>
        </SOAP-ENV:Body>
        </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
SOAP;
//        echo htmlentities($soap);

    $link = "https://ws.firstdataglobalgateway.com/****";

    $store_id = "***";
    $user_id =      "***";
    $pass = "***";
    $key_pass = "***";
    $uss_pass =  ('WS'.$store_id.'***:'.$pass);


    $path = "/home/hoster/ssl_firstdata/";
    $pem_path = $path . "***.pem";  
    $key_path  = $path. "***_.1.key";

    $ch = curl_init($link);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: text/xml") );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $uss_pass);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $soap);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, $pem_path);//pem file
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLKEY, $key_path); // crt file
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD, $key_pass);

    $res = curl_exec($ch);

    //$xml = simplexml_load_string('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? >'.$res);
    $xml = simplexml_load_string('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'.$res);


    $ch = $xml->children('SOAP-ENV',true);$ch = $ch[1];$ch = $ch->children('fdggwsapi',true);$response = $ch[0];
    $orderId = trim((string)$response->OrderId);

    mysql_connect($db_host , $db_user, $db_pass);
    if(!mysql_select_db($db_name))
    {
        echo "Create the database please";
        exit;
    }

    $result = array(
                'Order Number' => $orderId,
                'errorMessage' => (string)$response->ErrorMessage,
                'response' => $res,
                "\n\nv_name" => $_REQUEST['text1'],
                'v_degree' => $_REQUEST['text2'],
                'v_graduation' => $_REQUEST['text3'],
                'v_email' => $_REQUEST['text4'],
                'v_phone' => $_REQUEST['text5'],
                'v_address' => $_REQUEST['text6'],
                "\n\nOrder Details" => "\n",
                'v_quantity' => $_REQUEST['count'],
                'cost' => ($_REQUEST['count'] == '50' ? '$25.00' : '$38.00'),
                'shipping and handling' => '$8.65',
                'total price' => ($_REQUEST['count'] == '50' ? '$33.65' : '$46.65'),
                "\n\nShipping Information" => "\n",
                'name'  => $_REQUEST['info_name'],
                'street' => $_REQUEST['info_street'],
                'apt' => $_REQUEST['info_APT'],
                'city' => $_REQUEST['info_city'],
                'state' => $_REQUEST['info_state'],
                'zip' => $_REQUEST['info_zip']
        );


    if(strlen($orderId) != 0 && strpos((string)$response->ErrorMessage,'database error') === false)//success
    {
        $result['success'] = 1;
        $link = 'order.php?step=3';
        $subject = "order submitted";
    }
    else
    {
        $result['success'] = 0;
        $link = 'order.php?step=-3';
        $subject = "Error occured while creating order";

    }

   $_SESSION['data'] = $result;
   $into = array();
   $values = array();
   foreach($result as $key => $val)
   {
        $into[] = "`$key`";
        if($key == 'v_quantity') $values[] = addslashes ($val);
        else $values[] = "'".addslashes($val)."'";
   }
   $query = "INSERT INTO `***`.`orders` (".implode(', ',$into).") VALUES (".implode(', ',$values).");";
   
   require_once "send_mail.php";
   $sendTo = array($admin_email,$result['v_email']);
   send_mails($sendTo,$from,$subject,$result);

    mysql_query($query);
    header('Location: '.$link);
    exit;


function render()
{
    global $res,$xml;
//    var_dump($_REQUEST);           
 

//    echo $res;
//
    echo htmlentities($res);
/* */
    var_dump($xml);

}


?>

So I ran into the most bizarre problem ever on my live server. For some odd reason something, somewhere is adding an extra character after every " mark I have. Now I am using zend framework but this can not be an issue involving them since everything works perfectly on my localhost. I am using 1and1 to host my application but for the love of me I can not narrow this down any more.

Ex of my problem, I type this into my text box: "This is a sentence" and it proceeds to saving this: \"This is a sentence\" 

Something is happening right after I submit my form because if I add the code directly in my database, it displays everything fine. Has any one ever ran into this problem before?

Hello,

I have a script coded in PHP and alot of JavaScript and I have problems with

languages like Arabic and Hebrew ( non Latin characters) ..

It is showed as question marks in the website like this ( ?????????) and in the database ..

I converted the SQL Database from Latin Swedish to UTF-8 in phpmyadmin and now the database is correct but the website is still in question marks .

In every HTML code you can see this :

........... content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

and I tried changing the same php pages to UTF-8 using text editors but nothing happened .

any help will be great. thanks.

Hi everyone,

I am having a problem with using quotation marks / apostrophe with php and mysql. If I enter the following lines in mysql.

"user's resume"  when I do a query from mysql i get back " User\'s resume" it's adding a slash before  the
apostrophe. How can I fix this ?

Thanks.