Set JavaScript variable to DB contents

Not sure if this post belogs here, but I'm hoping someone can help me
out.
I can get the contents of the my database comments field using PHP.
The comments field may include single or double quotes or other strange
characters.
How do I compensate for these problem characters when I try to set a
JavaScript variable? eg.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
MyComments = " <? PHP result here?>"
</script>

FP wrote:
> Not sure if this post belogs here, but I'm hoping someone can help me
> out.
> I can get the contents of the my database comments field using PHP.
> The comments field may include single or double quotes or other
> strange characters.
> How do I compensate for these problem characters when I try to set a
> JavaScript variable? eg.
>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> MyComments = " <? PHP result here?>"
> </script>

addslashes()
Or maybe htmlentities() is a better choice here.

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

*** FP escribió/wrote (4 Jul 2006 12:08:07 -0700):
> How do I compensate for these problem characters when I try to set a
> JavaScript variable? eg.
>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> MyComments = " <? PHP result here?>"
> </script>

Check the latest user note in:

http://www.php.net/htmlspecialchars

I don't really understand the code, anyway. You'll probably have enough
with:

http://www.php.net/addslashes

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Thanks, the "addslashes()" was exactly what I was looking for.