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compubase
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Jan 31, 2005, 7:23 AM

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Hi all,

For a client, we have setup the NM to publish the index file as a php file for advanced features.
For example:
<?php
$name = '$name$';
?>

The problem now is when a single quote is entered in the name field, the php file cannot be parsed because the genereated index file will than look like:
<?php
$name = 'News article name with a quote(')';
?>

Is there a way to subsitute special chars like quotes to theire HTML equivalent?

Thanks for your help!

Joep


ross
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Feb 1, 2005, 11:28 AM

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Re: [compubase] Substite special chars in $name$ placeholder [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Joep.

Thanks for posting!

I can think of a couple different things for you to try.

The first would be to add a \ before each of your single quotes. This will generally cancel out the significance that the character that it’s before. In this case, it would cancel out the fact that a single quote ends a text string.

The second one would be to substitute in the html value for a single quote. It would be &#39; The single quote should get translated back to a ‘ when it’s being used on a page.

Could you give either of these a shot and let me know how it works out?

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to let me know Smile.
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compubase
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Feb 1, 2005, 11:49 AM

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Re: [ross] Substite special chars in $name$ placeholder [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks Ros for your reply,

I found the solution by using heredocs funtionality:

<?php
$name = <<<EOD
$name$
EOD;
?>

Joep