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NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:29:27 -0500
From: Robin Hounsome <robin@hounsome.org.uk>
Subject: Re: PHP query
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Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:29:23 +0100
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In article <aaf1210f52.Alan.Adams@laptop.adamshome.org.uk>,
   Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> wrote:
> I am having problems dealing with input data containing the single 
> quote character '

[snip]

> $readtest=$_POST["readtest"];
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> echo "<br>readtest=$readtest <br>\n";
> echo "<form method=POST action='readtest2.php'>\n";
> echo "<input type='text' name='display' value='$readtest'>\n";
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^
Try this

$readtest=stripslashes($_POST["readtest"]);

echo "<input type='text' name='display' value=\"$readtest\">\n";

Um... untested

Robin

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