[FX.php List] More on my POST error problem

[Nick Salonen]

With FileMaker and FX I personally check get_magic_quotes_gpc() every
time I process POST or GET variables.  Then, if magic_quotes are on, I
use stripslashes() for each post/get variable, and then when I display
data from FileMaker on the web, I use htmlentities($var['field'][0],
ENT_QUOTES) for example to display it because that data can contain
quotes or other characters.

http://php.net/get_magic_quotes_gpc

On 4/9/07, Kevin Futter <kfutter at sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au> wrote:
> On 7/4/07 8:12 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, I tried to locate the exact culprit in the block of text, and
> > found the error, but I still can't figure out how to circumvent it:
> >
> > It's a single apostrophe. I know about using STRIPSLASHES to prevent
> > strings from being returned with backslashes in them, but why am I
> > now not able to retrieve a POST when a field has a single quote in
> > it?? The strange thing is that I can put a single quote in another
> > field in the same form, and it goes through; however, in the 2nd
> > field, which has about 1000 characters in it, I can't use any
> > apostrophes at all.
> >
> > What am I missing here?
> >
>
>
> Possibly an encoding problem Bob. There isn't actually only one apostrophe
> character (the 'smart' or curly ones are different characters to the
> straight ones), and if you're using a document encoding that doesn't support
> those other characters, it *may* cause problems.
>
>
> --
> Kevin Futter
> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
>
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