strange behaviour, formdata is altered.

[lumberjakel]

Look at this script. First time you use it it show a textarea. When you type something (& submit) it will show how the data will be available for your script.

When you try to enter a ", php changes it to \", for example, he said: "hello world"! will become
he said: \"hello world\"!.

The problem is how PHP auto-decodes the query, because

echo urldecode($REQUEST_URI);

will show normal quotes.

How can I solve this?

<?
if (empty($textfield))
{
?>
<form name=&quot;form1&quot; method=&quot;get&quot; action=&quot;&quot;>
  <textarea name=&quot;textfield&quot;></textarea>
  <br>
  <input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Submit&quot;>
</form>
<?
}
else
{
  echo $textfield.&quot;<br>&quot;;
  echo urldecode($REQUEST_URI);
}
?>

 

[kubla]

you could try using the stripslashes funtion:

$textfield = stripslashes($textfield);

http://www.robertgraves.org

 

[lumberjakel]

thanx, but I was looking for a function to tell PHP not to add the slashes in the first place...

 

[kubla]

what's the difference? why not just strip the slashes? what's stopping you?

http://www.robertgraves.org

 

[lumberjakel]

becaus I want to know how to upgrade my old scripts without adding stripslashes to much lines. If there was a way to tell PHP not to add tehm in the first place...

 

[lumberjakel]

I made a script which does the trick:

function reparse()
{
  $arr=explode("&", getenv("QUERY_STRING"));
  foreach ($arr as $var_val)
  {
    list ($var, $val)=explode("=", $var_val);
    $GLOBALS[$var]=urldecode($val);
  }
}