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Question

First off - thanks to every who had replied earlier, you guys
solved my
_initial_ question. I've come across another ...
I'm going to be inserting code that I wanted echo'ed
(printed) like so -
if ($var == 10) {
echo ....
However, when I insert the code there - any apostrophes or
quotes inside the
code throws it in the crapper and chops up everything. I also
tried passing
it as a string and still the same thing.
Inside the code I wanted printed I use a <?php .... ?>
section also, which
shouldn't matter if I'm printing this stuff correctly. What's
the work
around for this?
Examples of errors:
echo "<p style="example"> This is an example
</p>"
---------------^^^^^^
$test = '<p style="font-size: 10px">This apostrophe in
can't breaks the
string</p>';
Thanks for your time, guys.
Shane H
[email protected]
http://www.avenuedesigners.com

Answer 1

Here is the PHP code that is inside the string I'm creating
and echo'ing
that is supposed to print errors when the form has been
submitted, which is
obvsiouly printing stuff too soon on that example page:
<?php
if(isset($Errors) && is_array($Errors) &&
count($Errors)) {
echo \'<p class="required" style="font-style: italic;
font-weight:
bold">The following required fields are missing:
</p>\'."\n";
echo \'<p class="required">\'."\n";
foreach($Errors as $Error) echo \'*
\'.$Error.\'<br>\'."\n";
echo \'</p>\'."\n";
if(isset($MailSuccess)) {
if(!$MailSuccess) {
echo \'<p class="required">There was an unexpected
error. Please try
later</p>\'."\n";
?>
Shane H
[email protected]
http://www.avenuedesigners.com
"Shane H" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Seb - great I really like that way. The only thing that
is throwing me
> trouble now is that I'm using <?php ... ?> inside
of the string I'm
> creating then echo'ing - here is an example page:
>
>
http://www.avenuedesigners.com/about2.php?id=10
>
> Inside those forms, the values are getting PHP
statements, example like:
> value="<?php ... ?>".
>
> Also, before the form, I'm using a PHP statement to
check for errors,
> again like: <?php ... ?>.
>
> Help?
>
> --
> Shane H
> [email protected]
>
http://www.avenuedesigners.com
>
>
> "(_seb_)" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Murray *ACE* wrote:
>>>>echo "<p style="example"> This is an
example </p>"
>>>
>>>
>>> echo "<p style=".'"example">This is an
example</p>';
>>>
>>>
>>>>$test = '<p style="font-size:
10px">This apostrophe in can't breaks the
>>>>string</p>';
>>>
>>>
>>> $test = '<p style="font-size: 10px">This
apostrophe in can'."'t breaks
>>> the
>>> string</p>";
>>>
>>
>> a less confusing solution IMHO, use single quotes
for your PHP strings,
>> so all the html double quotes will be safe, and you
only need to escape
>> the single quotes in your html/text:
>>
>> echo '<p style="example">it\'s way
easier</p>';
>>
>> depending on the situation, you can also use the
addslashes() and
>> stripslashes() PHP functions:
>>
>>
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php
>>
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> seb ( [email protected])
>>
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