I need to make a quote sign " into a variable to use with this code which im making, because I can't put the quote into this code can I?

PHP Code:

<?
function tags($tutorial) {
$quote = '"';
    $tutorial = str_replace("<?", "&lt;?", $tutorial);
    $tutorial = str_replace("<?php", "&lt;?php", $tutorial);
    $tutorial = str_replace("?>", "?&gt;?", $tutorial);
    $tutorial = str_replace("".$quote."", "&quot;", $tutorial);

    return($tutorial);
}
?>

When declaring the variable 'cancel out' the quote with a '\' so it reads it as a character as opposed to some part of the php code.

i.e.

$quote = "\"";

Hope this helps
stoot

Yeah thanks mate, that's sorted the problem, I knew I would have to do that, but I tried it a few different ways and I couldn't do it lol... Just one of those things I guess Thanks anyway

Don't suppose you could help with this though could you?

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/xingeh/public_html/test/insert.php on line 32

PHP Code:

<?

include("tags.php");

$tname = $_GET['tname'];
$ttype = $_GET['ttype'];
$caption = $_GET['caption'];
$tutorial = $_GET['tutorial'];
$author = $_GET['author'];

if(!$tname) {
exit("You need to input a title for the tutorial");
}
if(!$ttype) {
exit("You need to input a type of tutorial");
}
if(!$caption) {
exit("You need to input a caption");
}
if(!$author) {
exit("You need to input an author for the tutorial!");
} else {

$tname = addslashes($tname);
$caption = addslashes($caption);
$tutorial = addslashes($tutorial);
$tutorial = tags($tutorial);

mysql_connect("localhost", "lalala", "lalalala") or die("Could not connect to DB because: ".mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("lalala") or die("Could not select the DB because: ".mysql_error());

$query = "INSERT INTO tutorials VALUES ('', '".$tname."', '".$ttype."', '".$caption"', '".$tutorial."', '".$author."')";
mysql_query($query) or die("Could not complete query because: ".mysql_error());

?>

PHP Code:

$quote = '"'; 


This is completely valid and should work, did you have problems with it? Anything inside single quotes is taken as a literal string so php does not parse variables or spechial characters within the singe quotes.

When you're adding the info to the database i dont think you need the double quotes and the full stop - when your adding this the single quote with a variable should work fine and take the variable rather than the string. Also the way i do it (may work other ways) but i have the field your adding the variable into there too, as below.

PHP Code:

$query = "INSERT INTO tutorials ( id, title, body)
                                                values( '$id, '$title, '$body)"; 


Hope this helps.

Dude, stoot98 is completely right. You are inserting values without saying where to insert them.

and you don't need the double quotes inside the single qoutes and the periods also aren't going to give you the results you want.

Here is the basic syntax courtesy of HTML Kit...

INSERT INTO tablename (col1, col2, ...) VALUES ('val1', 'val2', ...)