quotes problem

i'm getting conflict between my HTML and PHP code because of quotes. Here's the situation


1-st page has an HTML code like this

echo "<input name='mytext' type='text'>"

then it passes the value to the next page via a POST

2-nd page has this code :

echo "<input name='mytext' type='text' value=' " . $_POST['mytext'] ." '>"

now , if the text is like Carl's Name Is Carol, then here's what i see in the source of the second page in my browser

<input name='mytext' type='text' value='Carol\'s Name Is Carol'>

so then it passes on the value as only Carol\

what do i do with this ?

Thanks

 

you can use quotes in otherway around
try this

echo '<input name="mytext" type="text">' ;

echo '<input name="mytext" type="text" value=" ' . $_POST['mytext'] .'">';

all the best

 

that will lead to the same situation if someone type something like

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i mean .. there should be a universal solution to all quotation problems rather than a "try to fix somehow" solution.. so i'm looking to find that solution

 

something tells me that i need here those "magic_quotes_gpc" things .. but i have no any idea of what they do and how to use them

 

Have a look at addslashes() and htmlspecialchars().

 

You're as useful as always

htmlspecialchars is what i need

Thanks!