Thank you. This has been the biggest help so far.
But, if it's a user entered string is their anyway to
do this without having to parse the string and looking
for the # sign and then reconstructing the string.
That would be very difficult to do.
I would appreciate any comments you might have.
Thanks again
John
--- Rebecca Donley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> John,
> I had a similar problem when passing # from one page
> to another as an html
> anchor. What worked for me was separating the # in
> quotes as follows:
>
> echo "?id=" . $row[0] . "#" . strtolower($row[1]) .
> '">';
>
>
> When I did this I had no problem passing the entire
> string without the end
> being interpreted as a comment.
> Rebecca
>
>
> >From: John Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [PHP] Is there no one who can help me out
> there.
> >Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:29:21 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >I have a text input field in my form. I need the
> user
> >to be able to enter something like: Hello, I need
> #
> >help. After which they click on a submit button.
> The
> >succeeding page then takes this text and tries to
> >display it and tries to store "Hello, I need #
> help"
> >in a varchar field in a mysql table column. The
> >mysql database is truncating the # sign and the
> text
> >succeeding the # sign. Also, absolutly no text is
> >being diplayed on the succeeding web page. I've
> tried
> > using addslashes() and I was warned against using
> >htmlentities(). Also, I'm not sure if I'm dealing
> >with 2 issues: A mysql issue and a html issue. Or,
> am
> >I dealing with one issue: A mysql issue or an HTML
> >issue.
> >
> >I know think my problem is that when I pass text to
> >another page with the # sign, it's interpreting it
> as
> >a comment. Is their any way to somehow escape the
> #
> >sign.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >John
> >
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