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PHP - Problems With Quotes And Speech Marks In Forms
Hi All,
I have a html form that I can submit using php, which then enters information into a database. This works fine when the text is just standard text - for example "the cat is on the mat". But if I put in "the cat's on the mat" - then the speach mark throws an error up! Is there any way around this? Thanks Matt Similar TutorialsA problem has arisen which puzzles me. I have forms which save data to MySql and retrieve it, showing it as the default data in the form. Naturally I escape any quotes before sending it to the database and remove the slashes when I retrieve it. But the form HTML code shows the data like this value="$variable" which is fine when only single quotes are used in the data but causes a problem when the user uses double quotes. So data of John \"Jack\" Smith would be output as value="John "Jack" Smith" with obvious problems. If I use value='...' then that would cause problems with single quotes. I haven't seen the answer in any of my books. The only things I can think of is changing all double quotes to single before saving to DB or converting them with htmlspecialcharacters so they are no longer actual quotes. Hi... I'm trying to make a form to edit a database entry that will be pre-populated with the current contents of the row being modified. Unfortunately, I only seem to be able to get it to pre-populate with the first word in each field (as in, if I had "two words" in a field, what would show up in my form is the word "two"). I've spent quite a while poking around on the web, and I'm 75% certain that my problem has something to do with my use/positioning of quotes, since that frequently seems to cause just this issue in just this situation, but none of the solutions I've found seem to help... Any advice would be much appreciated, I'm thoroughly stuck. Code is currently as follows: <?php require("dbinfo.php"); $con = mysql_connect("localhost", $username, $password); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } mysql_select_db($database, $con); $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM main WHERE id='$_POST[id]'"); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo "<form action='update.php' method='post'>"; echo "<input type='hidden' name='id' value=".$_POST['id']."><br>"; echo "Name: <input type='text' name='name' value=".$row['name']."><br>"; echo "Type: <select name='type' value=".$row['type']."> <option value='Food Pantry'>Food Pantry</option> <option value='Food Pantry'>Soup Kitchen</option> <option value='Food Pantry'>Shelter</option> <option value='Food Pantry'>Other</option></select><br>"; echo "Address: <input type='text' name='address' value=".$row['address']."><br>"; echo "State: <input type='text' name='state' value=".$row['state']."><br>"; echo "Phone: <input type='text' name='phone' value=".$row['phone']."><br>"; echo "E-mail: <input type='text' name='email' value=".$row['email']."><br>"; echo "Website: <input type='text' name='website' value=".$row['website']."><br>"; echo "Hours: <input type='text' name='hours' value=".$row['hours']."><br>"; echo "Requirements: <input type='text' name='requirements' value=".$row['requirements']."><br>"; echo "Additional Information: <input type='text' name='additional' value=".$row['additional']."><br>"; echo "<input type='submit' />"; echo "</form>"; } mysql_close($con); ?> Hi All, I have a text field in a form that when submitted, passes the submitted data, using $_POST into a second webpage. I then use an insert statement on that page to insert the submitted text in to a DB. I have finding that if user's place either a quote (") or a apostrophie (') in the form, it truncate's the insert statement, as it takes the characters as the end of the line. Is there any other way of managing quotes and apostrophies in forms? Cheers Matt This code only works in firefox <a onMouseout='hidetooltip()' onMouseover='tooltip(\"<img src=img/heroes/$hero.gif\")' href='hero.php?hero=$hero'>Text</a> Btw, I use this in echo (php). How to get quotes (triple) on <img src= ? I also have tried <img src='img/heroes/$hero.gif' But only works on FireFox Hi all, I use a MySQL insert query of the following form: Code: [Select] <?php $insert1= mysql_query ("INSERT INTO tablename (H1, H2, H3) VALUES '$V1','$V2','$V3')"); ?> However, I encounter problems when $V1, $V2 or $V3 contain certain symbols, such as quotes ("'). What is the best way to avoid this? Thanks! hi i'm happy to become member at this forum and i have a question please but i don't this in php or not okay my question's : i want to make form fill out by received speech ex : what's your name ... and after user spoke his name the field become fill out . Quotation marks are confusing me.
What do you guys use when it comes to quotation marks?
In HTML attributes and throughout the bodies of my web pages, I use the HTML entity ("). For example:
<a href="" title="Read "Article Name""> <p>In his new book, he says: "This is a quote."</p>I thought that this is the best practice. However, today, I read that it's perfectly safe to use straight quotes (") in the body, and that I should use the HTML entity only in HTML attributes. Is that correct? But what if I want to use curly quotes in the body instead of straight quotes? Should I always use the HTML entities for curly quotes (“ and ”), or can I also safely use the characters (“”)? I heard that straight quotes are safe in all browsers, even if you don't specify the character set of your web pages, but that curly quotes are only safe if you specify the character set or if you use the HTML entities. Is that true? And what about the <q> tag? Apparently, it's compatible with all browsers but they treat it differently. Edited by Fluoresce, 30 August 2014 - 07:37 AM. The fancy-looking quotes won't insert into my DB, so I'm trying to convert them to %93 & %94 or normal quotes.
Nothing I've tried works.
Code:
$fancy=" “test” "; $fixed=htmlentities($old, ENT_QUOTES); echo "fancy: $fancy<br>"; echo "fixed: $fixed"; Results: fancy: “test” fixed: I want $fixed to be %93test%94, or even "test" would work. Edited by rwmaho, 18 October 2014 - 01:28 PM. Hello everyone! This is my first post. I am very new to php and mysql and coding in general. It has not been made 100% clear to me as to when I should use single quotes, double quotes, and {}. From what I gather you use single quotes for literal interpretation... so if you put something like a variable in single quotes and echoed it, it would literally echo it as it is written and not the value of the variable. in double quotes, I gather that it will echo the value of the variable. as for {} I am unclear as to when to use the curly brackets for a variable. I am assuming if you had a statement in single quotes and you put a variable in curly brackets you would get the value of the variable?
Edited by LazerOrca, 25 November 2014 - 11:20 PM. I don't think I've asked this before have I?? can someone give me an internet KB that gives me all scenarios that warrant using singles or doubles? as in, wrapping values, variables, and why I need to do either, and when, etc, etc....? thanks Edited March 29 by ajetrumpetHi 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. 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? Hey, I've created a messaging system for my site and I'm trying to make it so that a copy of the original message is included and automatically put into the message content box when somebody clicks to reply. I've done this literally just by making the "reply" button into a form which also posts the content of the message from the previous page and puts it into the content box. However I have some issues with it: firstly, wherever ' is used, it becomes \' and wherever " is used, the whole of the rest of the message is blanked out. Can anybody point me in the direction of the solutions I might need to make it so that ' and " both appear normally without cutting the rest of the message off? Thanks in advance & let me know if anything is missing! 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. 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. 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? I am having a problem with my code and would be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction. Please see my code below:
<?php
$dbcon = mysqli_connect('localhost','user','','videos');
$sql='SELECT * FROM videos';
$result = mysqli_query($dbcon, $sql);
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
$image = $row['image'];
$title = $row['title'];
$description = $row['description'];
echo '<a href="#">
<div class="thumb" style="background-image: url("' . $image . '");"></div>
</a>
</div>
<div class="column-content">
<p class="column-title">Latest Video</p>
<p class="column-heading"><a href="#">' . $title . '</a></p>
<div class="video-description">
<p>' . $description . '</p>'
mysqli_close($dbcon);
?>
Now the connection to the database works, also the title and description is fine too. The problem is with the image. I cannot get it to display and I'm sure it has something to do with the quotation marks but I don't know in what order they should be. If I just use html the code for the image would be : <div class="thumb" style="background-image: url('image.jpg');"></div> with just a single quotation around the image url. Any help would be much appreciated.
Tony Hi, I am somewhat new to PHP but I have a little experience. I am having trouble coding this script to set variables with extra quotations and replacing some exploded strings. Here is the script. Code: [Select] <?php $ToCutDown = "[{"parentMessageId":-1,"message":"%3Ca%20href%3D%27%23%27%20class%3D%27standardLink%27%20onclick%3D%27showMobStats%28674542538%29%3B%27%3Eaka%20Bubbles%3C%2Fa%3E%20broadcast%20a%20message%3A%20%3Cfont%20color%3D%27red%27%3E%22Place%20Bounty%20on%20%26quot%3Baka%20Bubbles%26quot%3B%20%28Minimum%20of%20%2418%2C107%2C899%2C000%29%22%3C%2Ffont%3E%2E","id":28152301,""; $Exploded = explode("[{"parentMessageId":-1,"message":"", $ToCutDown); $Exploded = explode(","id":28152301,"", $Exploded[0]); $Exploded = urldecode($Exploded[1]); $StringReplace = str_replace("<a href='#' class='standardLink' onclick='showMobStats(674542538);'>", "", $Exploded); ?> So I'm trying to work with specific strings that have quotation marks in them (Which cannot be removed) & I'm having a hard time using them in variables and in any function that requires you to choose parameters with either ' ' or " ". Any suggestions would be appreciated thanks MOD EDIT: [code] . . . [/code] tags added. hello, i have this text file attached, and I am currently extracting the data from it. and yeah, I know how..but the problem is the double quotation marks. the last double quotation mark doesn't go away,,,am also aware that trim() only accepts strings. but how come, it does remove the first double quotation mark and leave the 2nd one. here's my script, feel free to download the file and try my script in your own localhost and tell me what's wrong . Thanks in advance $fh = fopen('iso3166.txt','r'); while(!feof($fh)) { $lines = fgets($fh); $parts = explode(",",$lines); print trim($parts[1],'"')."<br />"; } fclose($fh); |
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