How to escape quotes in a string that assigns a method to onclick with a parameter?

Question

I have a string that contains HTML-Code. And within that string I am assigning a method WITH AN ARGUMENT to the onclick-attribute. This attribute needs to be a string though.

This is the code.

This is how it looks like in HTML.

This is how it should look like in HTML.

I tried to put double quotes before and after, escape them, escape them with multiple backslahes, and many other things, nothing works. All ideas are appreaciated. :-)

Code should not be included as an image of it. – Funk Forty Niner Feb 18 '20 at 21:33 — Funk Forty Niner, Feb 18 '20 at 21:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '20 at 21:30

This looks like a job for stripslashes(). Note however, that you can not use the same double quote (") or single qoutes (') for both the attribute assignment AND the string definition for the parameter. Therefore you want your result to look something like: onclick="removeTag('naruto')".

If you have them as double quotes in your original string (i.e. $row['description']), you can replace those, all put together like this:

echo 'blabla <a href="#" onclick="removeTag(' . str_replace('"', '\'', stripslashes($row['description'])) . ')">';

A tiny bit simpler approach might be to just trim double quotes and add your own single qoutes:

echo 'blabla <a href="#" onclick="removeTag(\'' . trim(stripslashes($row['description']), '"') . '\')">';

Great! This is exactly what I needed, I will take a further look into it to understand it completely but atleast it already fixed the problem lol. Thank you very much. — L. Mehmeti, Feb 18 '20 at 21:36
you can also use onclick without quotes just put it last property in the html tag `echo 'blabla call removeTag';` — Rkv88 - Kanyan, Feb 18 '20 at 21:59

How to escape quotes in a string that assigns a method to onclick with a parameter?

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