why not str_replace('"','|', $describe);
?
this gotta work ...
Cheers,
Maxim Maletsky
-----Original Message-----
From: Tanya Brethour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:17 AM
To: Web master
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Qoute problem
Let says I strip the slashes.. so it goes back to just normal qoutes.. and
then do the str_replace("\"","|", $describe);
$describe = stripslashes($describe);
str_replace("\"","|",$describe);
It doesnt replace the qoutes..
-Tanya
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Web master wrote:
> My approach towards this problem was to parse the data before inserting
> and before displaying.
> Before inserting the data entered by user, do something like
> str_replace($comments, "'","~") and do the same thing for " do a
> different character like | and then insert it into database.
> Do the reverse before displaying the data, it should fix your problem..
>
> Tanya Brethour wrote:
>
> > Hi! I was hoping that someone could help me out. I am not positive if I
> > understand whats going on.. so let me try to explain.
> >
> > This is a process to modify news articles in a MySQL database.
> >
> > (From the point after picking the article to modify)
> > PHP Script #1:
> > I grab everything from the database and stick it into the HTML form
> > (textarea, text, etc). I allow the user to modify whatever they want.
> >
> > PHP Script #2:
> > This script takes the new information and displays it to the user.. it
is
> > a preview of what it will look like with the changes.
> >
> > PHP Script #3:
> > Updates the news article in the database.
> >
> > Now the problem I am having.. is that the description and content fields
> > have qoutes in them. For example:
> > Description: I like to run and walk. I love "smelly cheese."
> >
> > So.. when it tries to update the database. It will only store this as
the
> > description:
> > I like to run and walk. I love\\
> >
> > I know that its because the qoutes are not being escaped correctly.. and
> > it seems as though it is escaping the escape.
> >
> > So my question is.. how can I keep my qoutes?
> >
> > Just FYI.. I am making the user enter in the description and content in
> > html. So i cant just change the qoutes to HTMLTags because it would
change
> > my <P> and <a href=> etc.
> >
> > Below is an example of the code (shortened for an example):
> >
> > PHP Script #1: Editing description
> >
> > print'
> > </textarea><br>
> > Description:<br><textarea name=describe cols=40 rows=10>';
> > echo $info["description"];
> > print'
> > </textarea><br>';
> >
> > PHP Script #2: (preview changes)
> >
> > <input type=hidden name=describe value="<?php print $describe?>">
> > <b>Description:</b><br>
> > <?php print $describe?> <p>
> >
> > PHP Script #3: (update database)
> > $sql = "UPDATE news SET release_date='$date', title='$title',
> > description='$describe', contact='$contact', content='$test',
type='$type'
> > WHERE news_id=$id";
> > $result = mysql_query($sql)
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > -Tanya
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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