How To Get Dollar Amounts to show in Posts

Dollar amounts show as ("") or (".00")

[Senmar50]

Hi,

This is my "Articles Manager" php script. It works very well.
The problem is when visitors write posts with dollar amounts
($200.00), included, these amounts do not show up in the post.
They show up as "" or ".00" How do I correct this? I heard that you should use an escape backslash in front of the dollar amounts. Is there a line I can add to this script to correct this problem? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
SenMar

<?
$summary_template = "t_summary.html";
$article_template = "t_article.html";
$max_summary = 5;

function summary_page ($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id)
{
global $summary_template;
$t = new Template();
$t->set_file("SummaryPage", $summary_template);
$article_url = "article_".$article_id.".html";
$date = nl2br($date);
$summary = nl2br($summary);
$t->set_var( array(
"subject" => $subject,
"date" => $date,
"summary" => $summary,
"article_url" => $article_url
));
$t->parse("Summary", "SummaryPage");
return $t->get_var("Summary");
}

function main_page ($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id, $body)
{
global $article_template;

$t = new Template();
$t->set_file("ArticlePage", $article_template);
$article_url = "article_".$article_id.".html";
$date = nl2br($date);
$summary = nl2br($summary);
$body = nl2br($body);
$t->set_var( array(
"subject" => $subject,
"date" => $date,
"summary" => $summary,
"body" => $body,
"article_url" => $article_url
));
$t->parse("Article", "ArticlePage");
return $t->get_var("Article");
}

function add_article($filename, $news)
{

if(file_exists($filename)){
$fh = fopen($filename, "r");
$old_news = fread($fh, filesize($filename));
fclose($fh);
}

/* TODO: Multipage articles
preg_match_all("<!--ARTICLE PAGE=(\d*)-->", $old_news, $matches;

if( count($matches[0]) >= $max_summary){
$oldfilename = $filename.($matches[0][0]+1);
}
*/

$fh = fopen($filename, "w");
$news = stripslashes($news);
fwrite($fh, "\n<!--ARTICLE-->\n$news $old_news");
fclose($fh);
}
?>

[Senmar50]

I think I've solved the problem! I've asked members to
place an escapeslash in front of their dollar amount.

Ex: \$ 235.00

It worked for me.

SeMar

[smatts9]

use this:

[php]
$stuff=addslahes($stuff);
[/php]

instead of asking members to do that.