Escape double quotes in input value
Question
I have an input field where the value echoed in PHP is encoded with a UTF-8 charset
<input value="<?php echo html_entity_decode($data["title"]); ?>" type="text">
Sample value:
"पीला सितारा పసుపు నక్షత్రం yellow star!"
The double quotes that are appearing in the text are preventing the value from being displayed.
I have tried this, but it is not working.
<input name="title" id="title" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars_decode(html_entity_decode($data["title"])); ?>" class="width9" type="text"> type="text">
2 answers
solution1
4 2014-07-10 14:35:46
The problem is that you do it the wrong way around. You try to decode encoded strings. But you have to encode the string.
So you need
htmlspecialchars($data["title"])
and not
htmlspecialchars_decode($data["title"])
Because htmlspecialchars_decode() decodes a htmlspecialchars encoded string.
solution2
0 2014-07-11 09:38:12
htmlspecialchars($string) should work, so should htmlspecialchars($string,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8") and htmlentities($value, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8")
i wonder if your issue is not actually that you are not specifying the meta charset in your final page
some code for you to test
<?php
if(empty($_POST['string_to_process'])) { $string = "enter your string"; } else { $string = $_POST['string_to_process']; }
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<form action="/encoding.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="string_to_process" />
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
RESULTS:
WITHOUT ESCAPING : <input type="text" value="<?php echo($string) ?>" /><br />
FOR htmlspecialchars($string): <input type="text" value="<?php echo(htmlspecialchars($string)) ?>" /><br />
FOR htmlentities($string): <input type="text" value="<?php echo(htmlentities($string)) ?>" /><br />
FOR htmlspecialchars($string,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8"): <input type="text" value="<?php echo(htmlspecialchars($string,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8")) ?>" /><br />
FOR htmlentities($value, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8"): <input type="text" value="<?php echo(htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8")) ?>" /><br />
</body>
</html>
hope it helps dude, encoding can be a pain
EDIT:
yeah i just tried it without
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
and it was messed up , include the above and all will be peachy
TH
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