PHP parsing n00b [Archive]

East High

July 14th, 2005, 04:32 PM

Hello,

I know very, very little when it comes to PHP. I've been using some of the tutes from the Flash section of this site to create Flash/PHP email forms and guest book forms. I've noticed that when the users type in their info and use quotes or parentheses it gets parsed as a backslash. I know that this has to do with the way PHP needs to be coded, but is there something I can do to fix this? Something simple I can put into the PHP code or some kind of filter?

Thanks,
GD

hl

July 14th, 2005, 04:35 PM

www.php.net/stripslashes

East High

July 15th, 2005, 03:51 PM

Thanks for the link, but I'm still confused. I'm afraid that I don't know enough about PHP to figure this out. I'm mainly a designer.... Which one of those bits of code should I use? Can I put in anywhere in the code? My code uses the $_POST method instead of $output if that helps/makes sense/ proves me a total idiot.

Here's my code:

<?php
$Website = eregi_replace("http://", "", $website);
if ($_POST["done"] == "Yes") {
$filename = "guest.txt";
$fp = fopen( $filename,"a");
$datePost = (date ("dS of F Y"));
$Input = "guest=".URLencode("COOK: ".
$_POST["name"].
" RECIPE: ".
$_POST["website"].
" INGREDIENTS / PREPARATION: ".
$_POST["comments"].
" Posted: ".
$datePost." ");
fwrite($fp,$Input,strlen($Input));
fclose($fp);
echo "confirm=success";
}
?>
Thanks again,
GD

East High

July 18th, 2005, 04:25 PM

*bump*

hl

July 18th, 2005, 06:40 PM

Thanks for the link, but I'm still confused. I'm afraid that I don't know enough about PHP to figure this out. I'm mainly a designer.... Which one of those bits of code should I use? Can I put in anywhere in the code? My code uses the $_POST method instead of $output if that helps/makes sense/ proves me a total idiot.

Here's my code:

<?php
$Website = eregi_replace("http://", "", $website);
if ($_POST["done"] == "Yes") {
$filename = "guest.txt";
$fp = fopen( $filename,"a");
$datePost = (date ("dS of F Y"));
$Input = "guest=".URLencode("COOK: ".
$_POST["name"].
" RECIPE: ".
$_POST["website"].
" INGREDIENTS / PREPARATION: ".
$_POST["comments"].
" Posted: ".
$datePost." ");
fwrite($fp,$Input,strlen($Input));
fclose($fp);
echo "confirm=success";
}
?>
Thanks again,
GD

<?php
$Website = eregi_replace("http://", "", $website);
if ($_POST["done"] == "Yes") {
$filename = "guest.txt";
$fp = fopen( $filename,"a");
$datePost = (date ("dS of F Y"));
$Input = "guest=".URLencode("COOK: ".
stripslashes($_POST["name"]).
" RECIPE: ".
stripslashes($_POST["website"]).
" INGREDIENTS / PREPARATION: ".
stripslashes($_POST["comments"]).
" Posted: ".
$datePost." ");
fwrite($fp,$Input,strlen($Input));
fclose($fp);
echo "confirm=success";
}
?>

East High

July 18th, 2005, 07:22 PM

wow. so it was just a matter of wrapping stripslashes() around the $_post[];

thanks! :beer: