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Mar 23.2009

I have a page that is populated by a database. The data base includes apostrophes (single quotes) that are escaped by ‘ The php document that populates this page creates a function call like so:

[CODE]onclick=”sendToCart(‘102′,’Lover’s Combo’,’5.00′,’13’,”)”[/CODE]

Obviously you can see the problem with the second parameter. How can I fix this? I need to preserve the ‘

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@KorMar 23.2009 — 
Obviously you can see the problem with the second parameter. How can I fix this? I need to preserve the '[/QUOTE]
I can't see the problem... You need to preserve it? Preserve it. What prevents you from doing that? If you want to echo, in php, a backslash, you must escape it as well:
<i>
</i>echo "onclick="sendToCart('102','Lover[COLOR="Blue"][/COLOR]'s Combo','5.00','13','')"";
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@cfgcjmauthorMar 23.2009 — the problem is that this: 'Lover's Combo'

is the second parameter; there are technically three single quotes...are you saying adding another slash will allow the js to pass it properly?
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@KorMar 23.2009 — are you saying adding another slash will allow the js to pass it properly?[/QUOTE]
yes.
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@KorMar 23.2009 — I don't see the problem.
<i>
</i>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;untitled&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript"&gt;
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
function sendToCart(a,b,c,d,f){
alert(b)
}
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;a href="#" onclick="sendToCart('102','Lover's Combo','5.00','13','');return false"&gt;send to chart&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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@cfgcjmauthorMar 23.2009 — Two does not work.

the parameter in plain text should be Lover's Combo

Because of php/mySql we have to add one slash making it Lover's Combo

Because of this JS is trying to break up the parameters for this

onclick="sendToCart('102','Lover's Combo','5.00','13','')"

as such:

Parameter 1: 201

Parameter 2: Lover

Parameter 3: s Combo

...
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@KorMar 23.2009 — 

Because of this JS is trying to break up the parameters for this

onclick="sendToCart('102','Lover's Combo','5.00','13','')"

as such:

Parameter 1: 201

Parameter 2: Lover

Parameter 3: s Combo

...[/QUOTE]
No, it does not. have a look:
<i>
</i>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;untitled&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript"&gt;
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
function sendToCart(a,b,c,d,f){
for(var i=0; i&lt;arguments.length;i++){
alert(arguments[i])
}
}
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;a href="#" onclick="sendToCart('102','Lover's Combo','5.00','13','');return false"&gt;send to chart&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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