how do i handle speech marks in a variable 2

[panini]

hi there - i have a string that needs to have -ds1"data" in it - but the first " keeps closing the string...

In asp in would be -ds1""data"" but i can't work out what it would be in php

 

[steven290]

try
ds1"\"data\

 

[panini]

hi there - that gives me

Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1

 

[steven290]

try the stripslashes() function with that


ex.

$str="hello world it\'s \"steven\".";

echo stripslashes($str);

 

[Vragabond]

Little typo from steven there. In ASP you escaped the double quotes by making two double quotes. In PHP you do it by putting a backslash character in front of the escaped quote:

$myString = "-ds1\"data\"";

An alternative available to PHP is using the other set of quotes. PHP understands strings in both single and double quotes. So, if you need to have a single quote in string, you can embed it in double quotes and if you need double quotes embed it in single:

$myString = '-ds1"data"';

 

[panini]

thanks guys that's great

 

[Olavxxx]

Hmm, You might also consider using the htmlentities.
" = "

$myString = "-ds1"data"";

$myString = "-ds1" . htmlentities("\"data\"");

If the "data" is retrieved from a variable, you can simply wrap the variable in htmlentities().

eg:

$foo = htmlentities($bar);

This would also work for a submitted form, data retrieved from mysql, etc.

Olav Alexander Mjelde

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