Re: Weird happening when html from data includes HREF

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Larry,

Try replacing the first echo with

echo "$Quantity added to your cart.  Continue shopping or <a 
href='cart.php?FromScreen=$ScreenToRedisplay'> go to cart.</a> ";

In PHP, when you use "double quotes" (actually just a quote), variables 
such as $Quantity within them are replaced with the value of the 
variable.  If you use "single quotes" (apostrophes), they are not.  To 
me it is easier to read than all the concatenation.

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*Peter Dow* /
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On 5/7/2014 7:59 AM, Larry Kleinman wrote:
> Hi all -   I am having something odd happen with two PHP pages.   On the
> first page, I have the following code:
>
>
> <input type="hidden"
>   name="ItemMessageText"
>   value=" <?php
>       If ($ErrorMsg == '')
>          echo $Quantity. " added to your cart.  Continue shopping or <a
> href=&quot;cart.php?FromScreen=" . $ScreenToRedisplay ."&quot;> go to
> cart.</a> ";
>       Else
>           echo $ErrorMsg; ?>  ">
>
>
>
> This page POSTs to a second page, which contains this code.
>
> $ItemMessageText = $_POST["ItemMessageText"];
>
>
>
> When $ErrorMsg is blank, the value of ItemMessageText on the second page
> is
>
>   3 added to your cart.  Continue shopping or <a href
> =\"cart.php?FromScreen=/1dev/adult.php\"> go to cart.</a>
>
>
> Notice that the quotes surrounding the name of the hyperlnk have been
> escaped - there is a \ prior to the quotes.   I have no idea why this is
> happening and it causes the link to fail
>
>
> To make it more odd, the problem happens when the script is run on a
> GoDaddy server, but works fine (quotes are not escaped) when run on
> ZendServer on an IBM i box
>
>
> Larry Kleinman
> Kleinman Associates, Inc.
> 212-949-6469



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