Passing a session in a text field is cutting off after space

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I have remember value code that passes a session to a text field, it passes only the part before the white space. How can the full string be passed (ie pass "100 main st." instead of "100")

<input type="text" name="address1" placeholder="My address 1" <?php $rememberAddress1 = "value=" . $_SESSION['rememberAddress1']; $rememberAddress12 = !empty($_SESSION['rememberAddress1']) ?  $rememberAddress1 : ''; print ($rememberAddress12); ?> required>


// Full value is in session "100 Main St." but shows just 100 and not the rest
<h2><?php print_r($_SESSION['rememberAddress1']); ?></h2>

What I have tried:

I tried htmlspecialchars and stripslashes

Posted 15-Jul-24 9:13am

mcbain19

Updated 15-Jul-24 10:47am

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2024-07-15T21:33:00

Solution 1

You need to surround the attribute value with quotes, and make sure you encode any quotes within the value itself.

Currently, you are generating HTML that looks like:

HTML

<input ... value=This is a test>

which gets interpreted as:

HTML

<input ... value="This" is="" a="" test="">

You need to generate HTML that looks more like:

HTML

<input ... value="This is a test">

Posted 15-Jul-24 21:33pm

Richard Deeming

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mcbain19 16-Jul-24 15:10pm

I tried many variations with the last one showing \""value=" . $_SESSION['rememberAddress1']; $rememberAddress12 = !empty($_SESSION['rememberAddress1']) ? $rememberAddress1 : ''\" But I am still stuck. I see I need to encode the value I just keep hitting a wall.

Richard Deeming 17-Jul-24 3:30am

As I said, you need to enclose the attribute value in quotes. For example:

<input type="text" name="address1" placeholder="My address 1" value="<?php print(htmlspecialchars($_SESSION['rememberAddress1'])); ?>" required>

mcbain19 17-Jul-24 16:08pm

Richard, I had that above initially but I was trying to get it to not print a value if blank. But it's not worth having an issue for a minor detail like you are saying. Thanks for your help