Question

I am generating radio buttons based on an XML config values. Sometimes they have apostrophes in the text. When manipulating this data in PHP, I seem to lose everything after the apostrophe. For example:

<input type='radio' name='remove[]' value='Government wants to limit employers' communications about unionization'>

But when dumping it out after the form POSTs, I get this value:

array(1) {
[0]=>
string(35) "Government wants to limit employers"
}

Any suggestions on how to preserve the full string? Thanks!

Answer 1

use htmlspecialchars():

<input type="radio" ... value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($array[0], ENT_QUOTES) ?>" ... />

It’s explicitly intended to allow safe insertion of arbitrary text into html without ‘breaking’ the html. Note the ‘ent_quotes’ option. By default htmlspecialchars will only handle <>", but since you’re using ', you need the option to tell htmlspecialchars to handle those too.