I have a search form for finding restaurants. I got it handling apostrophe's just fine for the actual search, but when they're passed as \' into Javascript for mapping it's killing my maps.
Example: xml_searchresults.php?cityID=1&type=1&searchTerm=Sonny\'s Real Bit BBQ
For a simple fix, in PHP I'm trying to go from:
$searchTerm = "Sonny\'s Real Bit BBQ" (in the original PHP file)
Then replace the \' with [slashapostrophe]:
$searchTerm = "Sonny[slashapostrophe]s Real Bit BBQ" (to be fed to javascript)
and then replace the [slashapostrophe] back with \':
$searchTerm = "Sonny\'s Real Bit BBQ" (in the PHP generated XML map marker file)
I tried str_replace but the quotes and slashes confuse it. Thanks!
php function addslashes() to quote string with '\' and stripslashes() to remove extra '\' symbols ( to unquote quoted string)
You are looking for stripslashes(): http://php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php