On 18.10.2021 at 18:59, John wrote: > Solution, forwarded to PHP list: > ================================ > > OK, solved this. > > The form input MUST be contained in SINGLE quotes; probably to avoid > being manipulated by the PHP parser. Double quotes or no quotes don't > work. > > Example: > > <input type="hidden" name="trans" id="trans" value='<?php echo > $data ?>'> > > where $data is the incoming JSON data string. > > Thanks for your assistance. Thanks for providing a solution, but I suggest to properly entity-encode $data anyway, e.g. like <input type="hidden" name="trans" id="trans" value="<?=htmlspecialchars($data)?>"> -- Christoph M. Becker