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PHP query

Subject	PHP query
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
From	Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk>
Date	2011-09-07 20:20 +0100
Message-ID	<aaf1210f52.Alan.Adams@laptop.adamshome.org.uk> (permalink)
Organization	Orpheus Internet Services

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I am having problems dealing with input data containing the single 
quote character '

To test this, I use the input file as follows:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<form method=POST action="inputtest.php">
<input type="text" name="readtest">
<input type="submit" value="test">
</form>
</body>
</html>

The file inputtest.php contains:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Input Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?php
$readtest=$_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";
?>
</form>
</body>
</html>

This works file for most input, producing the typed data in both the
readtest= line, and the input field.

however if the input data is O'Reilly then the result shows
readtest=O\'Reilly, and the input field holds O\

This is a problem, because the full application stores input in hidden 
text fields, and the result after these are submitted is a surname of 
O

How can I get the full input text into another text field? 
(fortunately a lot of this is done within a common function, so if I 
fix the function, all input can be handled correctly.)

Alan





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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan@adamshome.org.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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PHP query Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2011-09-07 20:20 +0100
  Re: PHP query Robin Hounsome <robin@hounsome.org.uk> - 2011-09-07 21:29 +0100
  Re: PHP query Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-08 07:48 +0200
    Re: PHP query Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2011-09-08 20:49 +0100
      Re: PHP query Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-09-08 22:09 +0100
        Re: PHP query Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2011-09-08 23:05 +0100
        Re: PHP query "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-09-10 00:47 +0200
          Re: PHP query Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-09-13 20:46 +0100
            Re: PHP query "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-09-13 22:03 +0200
        Re: PHP query Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2011-09-13 22:39 +0100

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