Posted by Erwin Moller on 03/06/07 10:05

dajava wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry for this beginner's question.
> I do not know PHP
> and write for my friend.
>
> He has never been a professional programmer.
> He studied C and PHP with some books
> and made a bulletin board for his hobby homepage.
> (He uses MS-Windows XP)
>
> Now, the problem is:
>
> Writing a message
> and previewing is OK.
> But, after posting, all the words including and after ' (apostrophe/
> single quotation mark) disappear.

Well, you didn't give enough information, so we cannot help really.
Some questions:

What is writing a message excactly?
Is that filling in some HTML-form that is submitted to a server?

What is previewing a message excactly?
Is that some JavaScript or does it include a trip to the server?

If so: what does the server do with it?
- some possibilities: Store it in a database, echo it back, store it in a
file.

And then: WHERE do these characters disappear? In a form? or as HTML?

A wild guess:
You write back to the client:
<input type="text" name="whatever" value='I can't do that'>

That is wrong.

If you need " or ' in your response back to the client, make sure you call
htmlentities() around the literal part you send back as value (or in any
other inputelement-value, also textareas).

Regards,
Erwin Moller


>
> Examples are,
>
> --------------------------
>
> I can't do that
>
> ==> I can
>
> --------------------------.....................
>
> The person named 'Jim' is smart.
>
> ==> The person named
> -----------------------------.............
>
> Any hints?
>
> dajava,

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