PHP problem using " and ' please help!

[Justin Sampson]

Hi,
I don't know much about php but I have a problem. I have a script that I just spent 2 hours on modifying and trying to get working. I finaly did get it to work but when a type for example, "That's a pain", said the old man., quotes it shows up like, /"That/'s a pain/", said the old man.

Is there anything I could type to stop it from doing that like if I put a "\" in front of quotes or something?

Thanks,
Justin Sampson

[freddydoesphp]

Actually if you are storing this in a databse you need to have the slashes in fornt of the quotes. If you are simply emailing this data. You can use $data = stripslashes($data) before you use it. With the other example when you pull the data back out of the database you would need to again use stripslashes() before displaying the data.

[Justin Sampson]

Thanks but it's not going into a database, it's just printing it to a file. So how would I do that?

Do I use $data = stripslashes($data)?

If I do where in the code do I put it?

Thanks,
Justin Sampson

[freddydoesphp]

Before you write the data to the text file.

[Kevin Yank]

Alternatively, you can set the magic_quotes_gpc option in your php.ini file to 'Off'. This will prevent PHP from automatically adding those quotes, and will actually result in a small speed increase!

[Justin Sampson]

I'm not the best at php so could you tell me where I have to put $data = stripslashes($data) in the following code to keep the slashes from showing up?

<?
        include ("template.inc");
        include ("config.php");

	$summary_template = "t_summary.shtml";
	$article_template = "t_article.shtml";
	$max_summary = 20;

	function summary_page ($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id)
	{
		global $summary_template;
        	$t = new Template();
        	$t->set_file("SummaryPage", $summary_template);
		$article_url = "article_".$article_id.".shtml";
		$date = nl2br($date);
		$summary =  nl2br($summary);	 
		$t->set_var( array(
				"subject" => $subject,
				"date"    => $date,
				"summary" => $summary,
				"article_url" => $article_url
				));
		$t->parse("Summary", "SummaryPage");
		return $t->get_var("Summary");
	}

	function main_page ($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id, $body)
	{
		global $article_template;

                $t = new Template();
                $t->set_file("ArticlePage", $article_template);
                $article_url = "article_".$article_id.".shtml";
                $date = nl2br($date);
                $summary =  nl2br($summary);
                $body =  nl2br($body);
                $t->set_var( array(
                                "subject" => $subject,
                                "date"    => $date,
                                "summary" => $summary,
                                "body" => $body,
                                "article_url" => $article_url
                                ));
                $t->parse("Article", "ArticlePage");
                return $t->get_var("Article"); 
	}

	function add_article($filename, $news)
	{
		if(file_exists($filename)){
			$fh = fopen($filename, "r");
			$old_news = fread($fh, filesize($filename));
			fclose($fh); 
		}

		/* TODO: Multipage articles
			preg_match_all("<!--ARTICLE PAGE=(\d*)-->", $old_news, $matches;
		
			if( count($matches[0]) >= $max_summary){
				$oldfilename = $filename.($matches[0][0]+1);
			} 
		*/

		$fh = fopen($filename, "w");
		fwrite($fh, "\n<!--ARTICLE-->\n$news $old_news");
		fclose($fh);
	}

?>

<?
	if(strcmp($subject, "")){	
		if(!(strcmp($passwd, $password))){	
			add_article("article_summary.shtml", summary_page($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id));
			add_article("article_$article_id.shtml", main_page($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id, $body));
			echo "<p> Article has been added! <p>";
		}else{
			echo "<p><b> Password is wrong! </b>";
		}
	}
?>


<form action=news.php method=post>
<center><TABLE BGCOLOR="dedfdf" border="2" cellpadding="4">
<TR>
<TD width="10000" colspan="3"><font size="4">Article Administration:</font></td></tr>
<tr> <td> Password: </td><td colspan="2"> <input type=password name=passwd size=30> </td></tr>
<tr> <td> Article File Name: </td><td colspan="2"> <input type=text name=article_id size=30> </td></tr>
<tr> <td> Title: </td><td colspan="2"> <input type=text name=subject size=30> </td></tr>
<tr> <td> Author: </td><td colspan="2"><input type=text name=date size=30></td></tr>
<tr valign="top"> <td> Body: </td><td colspan="2"> <textarea name=body rows=15 cols=60></textarea> </td></tr>
<tr valign="top"> <td> About the Author: </td><td colspan="2"> <textarea name=summary rows=5 cols=60></textarea> </td></tr>
<tr> <td colspan="3"><center> <input type=submit name=submit value="Add Article To Database"></center></td><tr></table></center>

</form>

I didn't make this myself so I have no real clue on where to put it I know pritty much no php

Thanks,
Justin Sampson


[Edited by W. Luke on 11-19-2000 at 10:14 AM]

[freddydoesphp]

Somewhere in this function, above the following line($fh = fopen($filename, "w") like I did here:






function add_article($filename, $news)
{
if(file_exists($filename)){
$fh = fopen($filename, "r");
$old_news = fread($fh, filesize($filename));
fclose($fh);
}

/* TODO: Multipage articles
preg_match_all("<!--ARTICLE PAGE=(\d*)-->", $old_news, $matches;

if( count($matches[0]) >= $max_summary){
$oldfilename = $filename.($matches[0][0]+1);
}
*/

$news = stripslashes($news);
$fh = fopen($filename, "w");
fwrite($fh, "\n<!--ARTICLE-->\n$news $old_news");
fclose($fh);
}

[Justin Sampson]

Thank's so much for the help It's works perfect! I don't know what I'd do with out all you guys!

Thanks,
Justin Sampson