Posted by Karl Groves on 07/28/06 14:07

Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in
news:B8OdnTUrs-2Ym1fZnZ2dnUVZ_oidnZ2d@comcast.com:

> Karl Groves wrote:
>> I have a form which contains a field for "height".
>>
>> If someone places an entry such as: 5'6" the form seems like it
>> completely empties that value.
>>
>> It does NOT do this on my machine, but does on the client's machine,
>> which leads me to believe it is something with their php
>> configuration.
>>
>> Any ideas on what this is (and how I can work around it?)
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
> Hi, Karl,
>
> Do you mean the data doesn't get passed to the script, or when it's
> redisplayed the value doesn't get displayed? Or it isn't stored in
> the database correctly?
>
> If the latter, check out htmlentities(). That's its main purpose. It
> changes " to &quot;, for example.
>

I haven't done any debugging yet. I think it is a magic_quotes_gpc issue.
It *looks* like the entire entry is getting deleted if it contains a
quotation mark ("). If the entry in that field doesn't contain the
quotation mark, everything is fine.



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Karl Groves
www.karlcore.com

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