Storing information in attributes

[Shadowing]

Hey guys what is the best way to store information in a attribute I notice i cant store ' in attributes. or is there something i can do so i can? i was trying to use data

[eTianbun]

I dont get you, is it that you want apostrophe (') to be among the value of attribute?

(') = '

[Shadowing]

Hey CodeName yah thats what i mean. i want to beabel to store stuff like Don't you know that isn't fair. im using attributest to store a huge amount of data for when peopel hit reply in my forum but i didnt realize people cant use 'i realize today cause i tried to use it for something else and realize this.

data='".($_POST['topic_page'])."'

[boen_robot]

Right, and as CodeName said (rather cryptically), you can store an apostrophe in an attribute by replacing it with

'

or (for the sake of portability... long story...)

'

Alternatively, if your attributes use double quotes, you can have double quotes inside the attribute by replacing them with

"

In PHP, you have a convinient function for that called htmlspecialchars(), and you can use it like for example:

echo '<input name="topic_page" value="' . htmlspecialchars($_POST['topic_page']) . '" />';

[niche]

I store info all the time in attributes. I boen robot's last post is particularly informative. Thanks .

[Shadowing]

ahh i never really knew what htmlspecial characters really did until now lol , Thanks alot guys. for some reason when I saw Codename's reply i didnt notice the code example lol. I was like so tired thanks again guys

[Shadowing]

wierd i just tried this and its not working hmmif i store can'###### comes out as can

$return = "<a href='' data='".htmlspecialchars($subject)."'>$subject</a>";

I'm storing it in data then grabing it with attr with jquery and then sending it back to a php page usingjquery ajax on the data field.

Edited June 10, 2012 by Shadowing

[Shadowing]

oh htmlspecialchars isnt working cause im not using double quotes on the out side on the value of the attr so after doing some reading about htmlspecialchars apparently there is a 2nd parameter lol to escape the both quotes

data='".htmlspecialchars($subject,ENT_QUOTES)."'

Edited June 10, 2012 by Shadowing

[Ingolme]

It should work with both double-quotes and single-quotes. To encode single-quotes, pass the ENT_QUOTES parameter:

htmlspecialchars("string", ENT_HTML401|ENT_QUOTES);