Topic awaiting preservation: PHP problems with interoreting $ sign as a siring character (Page 1 of 1)

I'm passing variables from one form to a php page. At times a user may enter the $ sign in the textboxes on the form but when it gets to the php page its interpolated as a variable instead of a character in a string. What string function do I use to ensure that the contents being posted from my form are ALL interpreted as characters.

Any help

run your string through a str_replace() function, searching for $ and replacing it with \$

may I inquire what are you doing with the form data? calling eval on it?

so long,

->Tyberius Prime

That is the only way I could see the data being interpereted as a real variable. You should never call eval on user submitted data, especially if you don't know how to make sure that all of your data is valid.

Dan @ Code Town