"Ben Duffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Shawn McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have a var: > > $test = 'echo \'test\';'; > > > > If I display this in a textearea like so: > > echo "<textarea wrap=\"virtual\" rows=\"20\" style=\"width: 100%\" > > name=\"action\">\n" > > .$test > > ."</textarea>\n"; > > > > In the browser and in the HTML source I see (no slashes): > > echo 'test'; > > > > Even if I do an htmlentities($test); I see no slashes and the > single-quotes > > are not shown in the HTML source as " > > > > Is this just a behavior of the textarea??? > > > > Thanks! > > -Shawn > > Shawn, > > try $test = 'echo \\'test\\';';
Apologies, try $test = 'echo \\\'test\\\';'; escaping the slash itself, and escaping the comma.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php