array not printing properly in php

Question

i'm doing a project in php! the problem is array is not printing properly. Actually im trying to retrieve text data from mysql using php. im able to retrieve the data, but while im printing in the document it is not printing as i want!!

    echo "<td><p onclick=alert('".$arr[$t]."'); ><u>VIEW</u></p></td>";

$arr[$t] is text data i retrieved from database. it should print like this(assuming $arr[$t] has data "this is a paragraph")

but the actual output is like this..
output in CHROME

    <td><p  onclick="alert('this" is a paragraph'); ><u>VIEW</u></p></td>

output in FIREFOX

    <td><p paragraph');=""  a="" is=""  onclick="alert('this" ><u>VIEW</u></p></td>

i dont know why it's happening.
please help me out with this..
thanks in advance :)

Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-14 22:25:35Z

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The syntax highlighting from your chrome output gives it away - you have a double quote nested inside your double quotes, which is invalid HTML.

You should escape all output before rendering it, using something like htmlspecialchars (https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php).

Also, you should wrap your onclick handler in quotes - eg. onlick="alert('stuff stuff more stuff')" or it won't parse correctly.

edited Nov 14, 2023 at 22:25

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answered Mar 6, 2014 at 5:40

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bharat Over a year ago

thanks for your reply sevenseacat! actually if the text data is single word,it's working properly.. if text data has more than 1 word, first word is printing in between double quotes.. remaining words are printing after quotes.. thats the exact problem!!

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