I'm taking database information that contains a character of blah^s (I replaced the ' with a ^, so I could identify where in the row I had apostrophes). I'm retrieving and using preg_replace to place an apostrophe back in the string. Its all working great, until I try to use jquery to update an input text field.
$name = preg_replace('/(\^)/', ' ', '\'');
$name = "<input type='text' size='20' id='2' name='2' value='$name'> ";
I'm JSON encoding it fine with all of my other data.
$json = array(
'name' => $name
);
echo json_encode($json);
This returns, in the console utilizing jquery, "blah". Instead of "blah's" inside my input text field of which is what I need..
Does anybody have any ideas?
Look at the generated HTML. You are using ' to delimit the attributes value. So you are generating something like
value='blah's'
As you can see, the value ends after h.
You'd have to use an HTML entity for ' instead. You can do that with htmlentities:
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
or htmlspecialchars:
echo htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_QUOTES);