Excellent idea Rebecca. I guess I'll have to resort
to this because no one else out there seems to have
ever had this problem. You've been a big help. Thank
you for your ideas.
John
--- Rebecca Donley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What about writing a function to change all the #
> characters to something
> else (maybe something you would never see in the
> input) and then another to
> change them back again before entry into your db?
> I'm pretty new to PHP so
> I'm not sure what string functions are available but
> in ASP you could just
> use a "replace" function.
> Rebecca
>
>
> >From: John Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Rebecca Donley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [PHP] Is there no one who can help me
> out there.
> >Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:48:29 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >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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