I'm using PHP environment and I have a problem in displaying data on form of escape characters.
example:
how could i display a double quote " if my string data is \"
same with, how could i display a backslash \ if my string data is \\
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When displaying data on form, you need HTML escaping, not PHPYour Common Sense– Your Common Sense2013-03-13 12:55:38 +00:00Commented Mar 13, 2013 at 12:55
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1Im not displaying data on HTML, I raise this question for export to excel purposes.Mark– Mark2013-03-13 13:08:16 +00:00Commented Mar 13, 2013 at 13:08
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To remove \ characters that are used as an escape characters, use the stripslashes function.
david@raston ~ $ cat tmp/test.php
<?php
$raw = 'double slash \\\\ escaped quote \"';
print $raw;
print "\n";
print stripslashes($raw);
?>
david@raston ~ $ php tmp/test.php
double slash \\ escaped quote \"
double slash \ escaped quote "
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Everyone else has covered it and this is all documented here but for the sake of completeness I'd also suggest taking a look at the heredoc notation which can be useful when your data is changing through several contexts (eg. PHP -> HTML/JS -> JS-Regex)
<?php
echo <<<__EOF
It's not great for PHP indentation but often helps readability \ " ' `
__EOF;
