Adam Williams wrote:
> I've got an html form, and I have PHP parse the message variables for
> special characters so when I concatenate all off the message variables
> together, if a person has put in a ' " or other special character, it
exactly how are ' and " special inside the body of an email message?
> won't break it when it used in mail($to, "MMH Suggestion", "$message",
> "$headers"); below is my snippet of code, but is there a better way to
> parse the text for special characters. what about if I were to have the
it's not 'parsing' - it's 'escaping', and how you escape depends on the context
in which the string is going to be used.
> $message inserted into a mysql field? how would I need to handle
> special characters that way?
mysql_real_escape_string()
>
> $need_message = $_POST['need_message'];
>
> function flash_encode($need_message)
> {
> $string = rawurlencode(utf8_encode($need_message));
>
> $string = str_replace("%C2%96", "-", $need_message);
> $string = str_replace("%C2%91", "%27", $need_message);
> $string = str_replace("%C2%92", "%27", $need_message);
> $string = str_replace("%C2%82", "%27", $need_message);
> $string = str_replace("%C2%93", "%22", $need_message);
> $string = str_replace("%C2%94", "%22", $need_message);
> $string = str_replace("%C2%84", "%22", $need_message);
> $string = str_replace("%C2%8B", "%C2%AB", $need_message);
> $string = str_replace("%C2%9B", "%C2%BB", $need_message);
>
> return $need_message;
> }
where is this function used and why would you 'flash encode' a string
destined for the body of an email?
>
> //and then there are $topic_message, $fee_message, etc and they all get
> concatenated with
> $message .= needs_message;
this line is wrong, unless 'needs_message' is actually a constant.
> $message .= $topics_message;
> $message .= $fee message;
this line is a parse error. have you actually tried to run your code?
>
> //emails the $message
> mail($to, "MMH Suggestion", "$message", "$headers");
^-- why are these variables inside quotes?
>
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