Slashes in names

[Boofo]

Can someone please tell me how I make this line:

PHP Code:

$MessageAddon .= "\nSessions identifys them as ".addslashes($realusername[username]); 


Keep from doing this?

[disable]Sessions identifys them as Boofo\'s Babe[/disable]

[Xenon]

huh?

i think it looks perfect as it is here...

[Sparkz]

I don't see the problem either.

[Boofo]

For some reason it parsed it out. Here's how it looks with a space in it (Hopefully it won't parse it with a space). Take the space out between the o and the \ and that's how it looks.

Sessions identifys them as Boofo \'s Babe

[Xenon]

ahh, ofcourse it does, because you use addslashes function which add's slashes before ' and "

change it into that would help you:

PHP Code:

$MessageAddon .= "\nSessions identifys them as ".htmlspecialchars($realusername[username]); 


[Boofo]

Thank you, Stefan. I was just using the original code. Why would someone use addslashes instead of specialcharacters then? Or do you have to use addslashes for the db? I have found a few things that don't work well with ' in names on my board. Is there a global fix for that? Just curious more than anything.

[Xenon]

there are differences

specialcharacters changes the string and converts " ' < > and other into html code &lt; and something like that. they show up on the screen equal, but are different strings

addslashes just adds / before ' and " so they could be used inside a string for inserting into db for example

hope it clarifies it
it's hard to explain even in my nature language, and harder in english for me

hope it clarifiys

[Boofo]

So would that be why I get errors when run Counter Updates with Boofo's Babe as the last poster sometimes? I see what you are saying though. Thank you for it explaining it a little better to me.

[Xenon]

hmm, normally it should work, when updating counters....
i've looked into the code, and can't see something wrong..

[Boofo]

When I had Scott's last title on forumhome installed, it always snagged on that name and gave me a db error. I don't have the hack installed now. I haven't tried the counters since the new install so I may have spoken ahead of myself. Sorry about that.