Strip " from outside $var - php

$varHi I know this is an extremely basic task, but I am some what confused.
I am pulling a String back from a Database and assigning it to $var. I am then outputting this value into a text area. However, when I do, the string is surrounded in " ".
e.g. "This is the String", but I just want : This is the String
I have tried many functions. I am using chr(34) to search for the ", but to no avail. It will only replace them if it is inside the string. Not on the outside / surrounding the string.
$var = str_replace( chr(34), "" ,$var);
Thanks In Advance for any help.
EDIT : Turn's out I was outputting incorrectly into the text area
""
should have been
Thank's for the help.

$var = str_replace( '"', '' ,$var);
See it in action here

$var = str_replace('"', '', $var);

What about $var = str_replace('"', '', $var);?

you could use str_replace, as already mentioned but that would remove quotes from the string body also (if you have any)
to remove only the first and last ones you could use the trim function with the optional second parameter
edit: and if you have quotes inside the string that you want to keep those might be escaped so you might use str_replace to use only the quotes instead the escaped quotes ( str_replace('\"', '"', $string) );

The double speech should only appear if they are in your data being pulled, unless you are echoing or printing to the text area incorectly.
As said above the
$var = str_replace('"', '', $var);
Will work fine, but its a bit of a hack if your data doesn't have the double speech in it to start with.

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rtrim not working string with html elements

I have a problem with rtrim() function in php. I have string like this one:
$str = "<a id="AccountDocument_11" href="/view/id/11">Picture of Collateral</a> [2017-04-01],";
Like this, embed the string in array.
I want to remove that last comma in this string. rtrim not working.
When i remove that html elements from that string, rtrim() works perfectly. anyone help?
you have to change your string like this, then it will work, it does not work because your string is inappropriate:
$str = "<a id='AccountDocument_11' href='/view/id/11'>Picture of
Collateral</a> [2017-04-01],";
echo rtrim($str,",");
output is:
Picture of Collateral [2017-04-01]
The only difference is that double quoted strings interpret embedded variables and a number of escape sequences, while single quoted strings do not. E.g.:
Reference: When should you use single or double quotes in PHP?
write your code below it works
you have write string ""(double quote) and under string you also used "" string instead of this you use ''(single quote);
<?php
$str = "<a id='AccountDocument_11' href='/view/id/11'>Picture of Collateral</a> [2017-04-01],";
echo rtrim($str,",");
i believe you quoted the string wrong.
try the below:
$str = rtrim('<a id="AccountDocument_11" href="/view/id/11">Picture of Collateral</a> [2017-04-01],',',');
echo $str;

Saving strings in quotes (") using regex

I've got a simple string that looks like a:104:{i:143;a:5:{s:5:"naz";s:7:"Alb";s:10:"base"}} and I'd like to save all text in quotation mark cleaning it of things like s:5 and stuff using regex. Is this possible?
Want to get everything between quotes? use: ".*" as your search string (escape " characters as required)
..also you can check out http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/regex.htm for more help with regex. (It's got a great tool where you can test input text, RE, and see what you get out)
As long as the double quotes are matched, the following call
preg_match_all('/"([^"]*)"/',$input_string,$matches);
will give you all the text between the quotes as array of strings in $matches[1]
function session_raw_decode ($data) {
$vars = preg_split('/([a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff^|]*)\|/', $data, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
$result = array();
for($i = 0; isset($vars[$i]); $i++)
$result[$vars[$i++]] = unserialize($vars[$i]);
return $result;
}
I have this snippet somewhere found on my server... (no idea from where it is or if I have it written myself)
You can use it and do:
$json = json_encode(session_raw_decode($string));
This should do the job.

Preg_match, Replace and back to string

sorry but i cant solve my problem, you know , Im a noob.
I need to find something in string with preg_match.. then replace it with new word using preg_replace, that's ok, but I don't understand how to put replaced word back to that string.
This is what I got
$text ='zda i "zda"';
preg_match('/"(\w*)"/', $text);
$najit = '/zda/';
$nahradit = 'zda';
$o = '/zda/';
$a = 'if';
$ahoj = preg_replace($najit, $nahradit, $match[1]);
Please, can you help me once again?
You can use e.g. the following code utilizing negative lookarounds to accomplish what you want:
$newtext = preg_replace('/(?<!")zda|zda(?!")/', 'if', $text)
It will replace any occurence of zda which is not enclosed in quotes on both sides (i.e. in U"Vzda"W the zda will be replaced because it is not enclosed directly into quotes).

Removing a space

I have a variable
$abc='akr:/9888/fk4f76mhn';
Another variable
$url = 'http://alpha.com/zidd/id/'.$abc;
Which is giving me
http://alpha.com/zidd/id/ akr:/9888/fk4f76mhn
A space is being introduced between id/ and akr:/9888/fk4f76mhn which I do not want.
Is there anything wrong I am doing here?
Well you should put quotes around your string literal
$abc = 'akr:/9888/fk4f76mhn';
If you still get a space, you can use trim to remove it:
$url = 'http://alpha.com/zidd/id/' . trim($abc);
I use: preg_replace( '/\s+/', '', $variable) to remove whitespace from inside a string, and trim, for the start and end. This may help you out.
The $variable would be the your $url.
try
$url = 'http://alpha.com/zidd/id/'.trim($abc);
Don't you want the following:
$abc='akr:/9888/fk4f76mhn';

How do I escape only single quotes?

I am writing some JavaScript code that uses a string rendered with PHP. How can I escape single quotes (and only single quotes) in my PHP string?
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#myElement').html('say hello to <?php echo $mystringWithSingleQuotes ?>');
</script>
Quite simply: echo str_replace('\'', '\\\'', $myString);
However, I'd suggest use of JSON and json_encode() function as it will be more reliable (quotes new lines for instance):
<?php $data = array('myString' => '...'); ?>
<script>
var phpData = <?php echo json_encode($data) ?>;
alert(phpData.myString);
</script>
If you want to escape characters with a \, you have addcslashes(). For example, if you want to escape only single quotes like the question, you can do:
echo addcslashes($value, "'");
And if you want to escape ', ", \, and nul (the byte null), you can use addslashes():
echo addslashes($value);
str_replace("'", "\'", $mystringWithSingleQuotes);
In some cases, I just convert it into ENTITIES:
// i.e., $x= ABC\DEFGH'IJKL
$x = str_ireplace("'", "&apos;", $x);
$x = str_ireplace("\\", "&bsol;", $x);
$x = str_ireplace('"', """, $x);
On the HTML page, the visual output is the same:
ABC\DEFGH'IJKL
However, it is sanitized in source.
Use the native function htmlspecialchars. It will escape from all special character. If you want to escape from a quote specifically, use with ENT_COMPAT or ENT_QUOTES. Here is the example:
$str = "Jane & 'Tarzan'";
echo htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_COMPAT); // Will only convert double quotes
echo "<br>";
echo htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_QUOTES); // Converts double and single quotes
echo "<br>";
echo htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_NOQUOTES); // Does not convert any quotes
The output would be like this:
Jane & 'Tarzan'<br>
Jane & 'Tarzan'<br>
Jane & 'Tarzan'
Read more in PHP htmlspecialchars() Function
To replace only single quotes, use this simple statement:
$string = str_replace("'", "\\'", $string);
You can use the addcslashes function to get this done like so:
echo addcslashes($text, "'\\");
After a long time fighting with this problem, I think I have found a better solution.
The combination of two functions makes it possible to escape a string to use as HTML.
One, to escape double quote if you use the string inside a JavaScript function call; and a second one to escape the single quote, avoiding those simple quotes that go around the argument.
Solution:
mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($string))
Solve:
a PHP line created to call a JavaScript function like
echo
'onclick="javascript_function(\'' . mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($string))"
I wrote the following function. It replaces the following:
Single quote ['] with a slash and a single quote [\'].
Backslash [\] with two backslashes [\\]
function escapePhpString($target) {
$replacements = array(
"'" => '\\\'',
"\\" => '\\\\'
);
return strtr($target, $replacements);
}
You can modify it to add or remove character replacements in the $replacements array. For example, to replace \r\n, it becomes "\r\n" => "\r\n" and "\n" => "\n".
/**
* With new line replacements too
*/
function escapePhpString($target) {
$replacements = array(
"'" => '\\\'',
"\\" => '\\\\',
"\r\n" => "\\r\\n",
"\n" => "\\n"
);
return strtr($target, $replacements);
}
The neat feature about strtr is that it will prefer long replacements.
Example, "Cool\r\nFeature" will escape \r\n rather than escaping \n along.
Here is how I did it. Silly, but simple.
$singlequote = "'";
$picturefile = getProductPicture($id);
echo showPicture('.$singlequote.$picturefile.$singlequote.');
I was working on outputting HTML that called JavaScript code to show a picture...
I am not sure what exactly you are doing with your data, but you could always try:
$string = str_replace("'", "%27", $string);
I use this whenever strings are sent to a database for storage.
%27 is the encoding for the ' character, and it also helps to prevent disruption of GET requests if a single ' character is contained in a string sent to your server. I would replace ' with %27 in both JavaScript and PHP just in case someone tries to manually send some data to your PHP function.
To make it prettier to your end user, just run an inverse replace function for all data you get back from your server and replace all %27 substrings with '.
Happy injection avoiding!

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