[phorm] [Phorm:] Re: non standard characters
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MESSAGE: (#2776) Re: non standard characters
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AUTHOR: justin
DATE: June 2, 2003 at 5:32 p.m. EST
Reply To: (#2768) Re: non standard characters
Author: Patrick O'Hara
Date: June 1, 2003 at 10:21 p.m. EST
> What happens, is that PHP has the capability to escape
> the ' character when it is passed from the form, so it
> comes out the other end as \' and in order to get rid
> of it, we need to use the strip_slashes() function.
> Phorm makes use of the variable that is the same as
> the form field name. i.e. if there is a form field
> called notes and it has "I'm going" in it,
> Phorm (PHP) will have a variable $notes that will have
> the value "I\'m going". To get rid of the
> slash, we put the following line into the config file,
> which is one of the first things that gets executed,
> and we can alter the variables that Phorm (PHP) will
> use.
> $notes = strip_slashes($notes);
> Note that this is purely a PHP statement and has no
> relation to Phorm, apart from the fact that we are
> using it to modify one of the variables used by Phorm.
> Hope this clarifies the problem. Check out the PHP
> documentation if you are still having problems.
> www.php.net Regards,
> Patrick O'Hara
> WhitsundayIT
> QLD, Australia
> patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.whitsundayit.com
Hello Patrick,
Thanks, this has solved it for me. At first I was a bit confused 'though,
because the function should actually be stripslashes() NOT strip_slashes...
Regards,
Justin
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