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1. Ryan Paul
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I currently have 'front-end' delete links on my blog for logged in Administrators with a double javascript check popup.

   In the popup I've got the post title coming up. It works fine if I have an apostrophe in the title, but not if I have speechmarks / quotation marks

   I'm currently using the following:
   

   $variable = $post->post_title;
   $variable = str_replace(array("'",""), "\'", $variable);

   Adding the following to cater for speechmarks does not work:

   $variable = str_replace(array('"',''), '\\"', $variable);

   Can anyone help me please?

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Am I missing something? Why can't you just use $variable = str_replace( '"', '\\"' ,$variable);

3. Ryan Paul
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It doesn't fix it. When there's speechmarks in the title, it screws up the html.

   I thought it would work too.

4. Ryan Paul
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   ANYONE DAMNIT?

5. Ryan Paul
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Someone?

6. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Can you give me an example of what you want to happen? esmi's suggestion will replace quotation marks with slash-quotation marks.

   Start string: mac's "title"
   Result string: mac\'s \"title\"

   Is that not what you want?

7. Ryan Paul
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That doesn't work. I currently have this:

   $variable = $post->post_title;
   $variable = str_replace( "'", "\'", $variable);
   $variable = str_replace( '"', '\\"', $variable);
   
   	$link = "<a onclick=\"return checkStuff('$variable');\" href='" . wp_nonce_url( get_bloginfo('url') . "/wp-admin/post.php?action=delete&post=" . $post->ID, 'delete-post_' . $post->ID) . "'>".$link."</a>";

   I added the following title - Title 1 " Title 2 "

   and the html for the delete link it gave me was this:

   <a onclick="return checkStuff('Test 1 \" test="" 2="" \="" );="" href="URL HERE">Delete</a>

   but when I add the following title: Title 1 ' Title 2' it gives me the following correctly commented html:

   <a onclick="return checkStuff('Title 1 \' Title 2 \' ')" href="URL HERE">Delete</a>

8. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Is using the_title filter an option?
   

   $yourvar = apply_filters( 'the_title' , $post->post_title );

9. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I can't explain it unless $post->post_title doesn't contain what you think it does. Maybe it is getting changed somehow before you retrieve it. The str_replace suggested by esmi works as advertised for me. Have you dumped out $variable before the replaces to be sure what it contains?

10. ouija
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Little late to post maybe, but did you try using htmlspecialchars?

    http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

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