Quick way to escape quotes.

[inveni0]

Hey, I've got a big fat bunch of code I have to echo into a page using PHP. Is there a quick way to escape the quote, without having to go through it all manually?

[jatar_k]

addslashes [php.net] might work

[coopster]

htmlentities [php.net] won't work?

[inveni0]

Neither of those works because the quotes screw up the code. For instance, how could I echo:

<span class="style13"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This forum Rocks</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font></b></span> </p>
<p align="center">

Without having to manually escape each character?

[jatar_k]

enclose it in single quotes if there are no single quotes in the string to be echo'ed

you should be able to just echo it straight up, where is it coming from?

[coopster]

Oh, you meant echo the HTML into a page using PHP.

You could use jk's method of enclosing it in single quotes but if there are any single quotation marks you will have issues. Another option is heredoc syntax.

Strings [php.net]

[inveni0]

Well, that's the thing. There are single quotes in the code. This is a "POD" like hunk of code used on a client's page. I'm programming so that it may or may not be displayed, depending on the contents of a database table.

[vevs]

how about to preg_replace all the " with \" and then use
echo "$string";

Vevs

[inveni0]

No, that doesn't work. I think it's impossible (unless maybe there is some way to include the information from an external text file). I was just wondering for future reference. I've already gone through and escaped them all manually.... :(

[coopster]

So I take it you didn't read about the heredoc syntax noted earlier?

[mooger35]

if you just want to replace the quotes, copy the code to notepad, hit ctrl-h and replace " with '.

[IamStang]

Not sure how much more involved your code is but I have used something like this in the past.

if($something == true){
?>
<span class="style13"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This forum Rocks</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font></b></span> </p>
<p align="center">
<?
}

Maybe I am over looking something in your post and you need something more advanced, if so, just ignore me. LOL. It's late. I'm tired. I am not as alert as I could be. Ya know!