Re: Problems escaping apostrophe, please help

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Hi,

Friday, June 10, 2005, 12:05:48 AM, you wrote:
LL> Hello all,

LL> I hope this hasn?t been answered a zillion times already, I've tried
LL> everything I know and nothing has worked. The following is the PHP statement
LL> and the HTML rendering.  The apostrophe is displayed as is and breaks the
LL> browser.  May be I am wrong but I was under the impression that escaping
LL> special characters with one of the these, htmlspecialchars, htmlentities,
LL> and addslashes would replace them with encoded (hex?) value so they wont
LL> break the browser. But it hasn?t worked that way.  I am using
LL> charset=iso-8859-1.  This is my PHP:

LL> === This is the PHP ===
LL> <li>
LL> 	<a href="#"
LL> onclick='document.form1.how.value="<?=htmlentities($row['how'])?>";
LL> document.form1.factor.value="<?=addslashes($row['factor'])?>";document.form1
..submit();'>><?= addslashes($row['factor'])?>
LL>       </a>
LL> </li>

LL> ====== This is the rendering =======
LL> ====== (note the heart's apostrophe breaks IE and firefox) ===
LL> <li>
LL>      <a href="#" onclick='document.form1.how.value="Pulmonary edema is a
LL> condition in which fluid accumulates in the lungs, usually because the
LL> heart's left ventricle does not pump adequately. In cases of severe
LL> pulmonary edema, the symptoms will worsen and include A drop in blood
LL> pressure resulting in a thready pulse.";
LL> document.form1.factor.value="Pulmonary
LL> edema";document.form1.submit();'>Pulmonary edema
LL>     </a>
LL> </li>

What I do to overcome this is in PHP do:

$content = rawurlencode($content);

and in the html javascript:

unescape("$content");

-- 
regards,
Tom

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