You could try enclosing the string in the HTML line by double-quotes rather than single quotes. Ie. <input type="text" name="some_variable" value="$some_text"> Regards, Richie ! _____ From: Jeffrey [mailto:jeffreyb@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:56 pm To: PHP DB Subject: short text strings with apostrophes and forms I have an application which calls up some data from a MySQL table and puts it into a web form for users to modify. One of the cells holds a text string which is put into a text input field. However, if that text string includes an apostrophe, all text after the apostrophe disappears. For example, if the test string from a database cell reads... Fix the managers' cars by Tuesday and that is saved in the variable $some_text, which is called up in a form... <input type='text' name='some_variable' value='$some_text'> The text field on the web page will only contain... Fix the managers How can I get the text field to show the entire string? Many thanks, Jeffrey -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0616-3, 20/04/2006 Tested on: 21/04/2006 12:03:14 am avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software.
