Encoding for W3C Validation
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From: Rick Dwyer on 3 Aug 2010 14:41 Hello List. In the Alt section of the IMG tag below, the variable $myitem has a value of "Who's There". echo "<div class='myclass'><a href='#' class='color_thumb'> <img src='/itemimages/$mypic' alt='$myitem' width='60' .... When running through W3C validator, the line errors out because of the " ' " in "Who's". I tried: $myitem=(htmlentities($myitem)); But this has no affect on "Who's". What's the best way to code this portion so the apostrophe is handled correctly? TIA, --Rick
From: Sebastian Ewert on 3 Aug 2010 14:47 Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hello List. > > In the Alt section of the IMG tag below, the variable $myitem has a value of "Who's There". > > echo "<div class='myclass'><a href='#' class='color_thumb'> <img src='/itemimages/$mypic' alt='$myitem' width='60' .... > > When running through W3C validator, the line errors out because of the " ' " in "Who's". > I tried: > $myitem=(htmlentities($myitem)); > > But this has no affect on "Who's". > > What's the best way to code this portion so the apostrophe is handled correctly? > > > TIA, > > --Rick > > > > Use it echo '<div class="myclass"><a href="#" class="color_thumb"> <img src="/itemimages/'.$mypic.'" alt="'.$myitem.'" width="60" ...'
From: Ashley Sheridan on 3 Aug 2010 14:46 On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 14:41 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hello List. > > In the Alt section of the IMG tag below, the variable $myitem has a value of "Who's There". > > echo "<div class='myclass'><a href='#' class='color_thumb'> <img src='/itemimages/$mypic' alt='$myitem' width='60' .... > > When running through W3C validator, the line errors out because of the " ' " in "Who's". > I tried: > $myitem=(htmlentities($myitem)); > > But this has no affect on "Who's". > > What's the best way to code this portion so the apostrophe is handled correctly? > > > TIA, > > --Rick > > > > Well, because the way you're using htmlentities() there is ignoring single quotes, i.e. not escaping them. Try myitem=htmlentities($myitem, ENT_QUOTES); instead. Also, as an aside, I think it's general acceptance to use double quotes on HTML attributes rather than single. While that does make for complications when the HTML is part of a double-quoted string in PHP, it does avoid tricker problems surrounding Javascript event handlers on code, which generally use single quotes when they are part of an HTML attribute. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
From: Shreyas Agasthya on 3 Aug 2010 14:51 Rick, Probably Sebastian's fix might work but *htmlspecialchars* can help you, too. Regards, Shreyas On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Sebastian Ewert <seb2015(a)yahoo.de> wrote: > Rick Dwyer wrote: > > Hello List. > > > > In the Alt section of the IMG tag below, the variable $myitem has a value > of "Who's There". > > > > echo "<div class='myclass'><a href='#' class='color_thumb'> <img > src='/itemimages/$mypic' alt='$myitem' width='60' .... > > > > When running through W3C validator, the line errors out because of the " > ' " in "Who's". > > I tried: > > $myitem=(htmlentities($myitem)); > > > > But this has no affect on "Who's". > > > > What's the best way to code this portion so the apostrophe is handled > correctly? > > > > > > TIA, > > > > --Rick > > > > > > > > > Use it > > > echo '<div class="myclass"><a href="#" class="color_thumb"> <img > src="/itemimages/'.$mypic.'" alt="'.$myitem.'" width="60" ...' > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Regards, Shreyas Agasthya
From: Rick Dwyer on 3 Aug 2010 15:00
On Aug 3, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Sebastian Ewert wrote: > Rick Dwyer wrote: >> Hello List. >> >> In the Alt section of the IMG tag below, the variable $myitem has a value of "Who's There". >> >> echo "<div class='myclass'><a href='#' class='color_thumb'> <img src='/itemimages/$mypic' alt='$myitem' width='60' .... >> >> When running through W3C validator, the line errors out because of the " ' " in "Who's". >> I tried: >> $myitem=(htmlentities($myitem)); >> >> But this has no affect on "Who's". >> >> What's the best way to code this portion so the apostrophe is handled correctly? >> >> >> TIA, >> >> --Rick >> >> >> >> > Use it > > > echo '<div class="myclass"><a href="#" class="color_thumb"> <img > src="/itemimages/'.$mypic.'" alt="'.$myitem.'" width="60" ...' Thanks Sebastian. In the above, what is the function of the period in front of $myitem? --Rick |