String Question, Should be REALLY easy

[NateUNI]

I have the following code,

$test=$userContact['firstName']."|".$userContact['lastName']."|".$userContact['universityEmail']."|".$userContact['address1']."|".$userContact['city']."|".$userContact['state']."|".$userContact['zip']."|".$userContact['phonea']."|".$userContact['address2']."|".$userContact['phoneb']."|".$userContact['phonec']."|".$userContact['org_code1'];

print(&quot;<input type='hidden' name='oldUserInfo' value='$test'>&quot;

My problem comes when a user inputs a ' in any of the userContact fields, it automatically cuts off the rest of the fields from being included. Is there a easy way around this?? I tried using double quotes around value= but that did not work, THANKS!

 

[skiflyer]

Did you try...
print '<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;oldUserInfo&quot; value=&quot;$test&quot;>';

Or is that what you meant by double quotes?

That said... where's it cutting off the values? When you later try to read oldUserInfo from a form submission or javascript check, or when you view source and look at your hidden tag?

-Rob

 

[NateUNI]

sorry for not being clear enough. Yes that is what i meant by double quotes. The string is cutting off where the ' (single quote) is located. I am using the form variable on the action page.

this is my &quot;View Code&quot; from when i use single quotes:

<input type='hidden' name='oldUserInfo' value='Kirk's|kirk@hotmail.com|221 20th Avenue|Cedar Falls|IA|50613|'>

As you can see the ' in Kirk's is screwing the code up.

this is my &quot;View Code&quot; from when i use double quotes:

<input type='hidden' name='oldUserInfo' value=

with this error on the page:

Parse error: parse error in C:\InetPub\

http://wwwroot\information.php3

on line 241
<input type='hidden' name='oldUserInfo' value=

 

[kpdvx]

addslashes($variable) perhaps?

 

[Hokey]

Try:

print(&quot;<input type=\&quot;hidden\&quot; name=\&quot;oldUserInfo\&quot; value=\&quot;$test\&quot;>&quot;

 

[sleipnir214]

Or, to be more correct to the HTML spec (which does specify that the values of attributes be in double quotes):

print '<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;oldUserInfo&quot; value=&quot;' . $test . '&quot;>';

The parentheses around your print value are unnecessary. print is not a function, but an intrinsic part of the PHP engine.
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[skiflyer]

Oh geeze, exactly as Sleipnir said... my method for double quotes wouldn't work at all. Variables are not expanded within single quotes.

My apologies...

-Rob

 

[BB101]

you could swap quotes for &quot; (the html equiv) --BB