I used addslashes() to display some info about a picture in the img 'alt' attribute. but on firefox when it tries to addslahes i get something like this:

...ceiling and into the \"boulder field\ This site contains...

boulder field is surrounded by quotes but when i addslashes (or for that matter when i dont use addslashes) it doesnt print the second set of quotes.

any ideas as to why that is?

eb

You can't have quotes within quotes in HTML dude, and slashes are a programming thing, not an HTML thing. I have NO clue why IE would possibly let you do this. The proper way is to do a str_replace and replace " with "

Well, php is a server issue so it seems that addslashes would be affecting any kind of browser. Can you give a more detailed example. Show us the HTML not the screen output.

Remember, you only need to use addslashes before putting something into a database (or a comparable quoting situation). Adding slashes in such cases does not actually 'add slashes' - it simply prevents an error. So

'My name is o'reilly' ---> error. Hence we use
'My name is o\'reilly' ---> no error, and in the database is My name is o'reilly.

Incidently, this is why we don't need to remove the slashes later, because we didn't really add any. It was just a temporary measure.

Use htmlspecialchars() on anything that is used within an attribute.

thanks everyone,

htmlspecialchars() solved the problem. i was using addslashes for outputting infor, not inserting

eric