"Mary Ann" in DB, form shows only "Mary"

PHP
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hi all,

anyone else seen this before. I have 3 or 4 forms in my site and they all do this. if user’s name has a space in it everything after is truncated. names are fine in DB and everywhere else, except when I ECHO them into these damn forms! have looked around quite a bit and have found nothing. why me :frowning:

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<form id=“loginForm” name=“loginForm” method=“post” action=“set_Minfo.php”>
<fieldset>

<table width=“600” border=“0” align=“left” cellpadding=“2” cellspacing=“0”>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
<tr>
<th>Your First Name* </th>
<td><input name=“firstname” type=“text” class=“textfield” id=“inputtext1” size=25 value= <?php echo $firstname; ?> ></td>
</tr>

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any thoughts at all would be greatly appreciated !!

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Because your HTML is not valid. You need double quotes around attribute values in a tag.

value=“<?php echo $firstname; ?>”

Otherwise you get something like <input value=Mary Ann> and the browser doesn’t know that Ann is part of the value= and not an attribute name itself.

3

THAT’S IT!!! many MANY thanks Dan!

your time and expertise is TRULY APPRECIATED. wish I could do something for you. if you have some code you need to malfunction, or even crash, I’m here for you :slight_smile:

thanks again & have a good evening!

-mike

4

m300,

Check your code in an HTML validator, too, and you’ll see that the input tag needs to be closed, too.

Regards,

DK

5

right.

thank you too DK!

6

Don’t forget to encode the value too.
You solved the problem when the name contains a space, but what if a user enters a value with " in it? You’ll have the same issue
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I’m sure a user would never do a thing like that :slight_smile:

good point cranial… will do and THANK YOU!

you guys are appreciated!