I'm working on a bookmarklet that grabs information from a page and
submits it to a server. Yet another social bookmarking application.
I'm having trouble with page titles that include an apostrophe.
I'm using encodeURIComponent() around the page title, and again around
the URL. Apparently the browser is inserting a backslash before any
apostrophe. I can see that when I write the $_GET data to a file in
PHP on the server. When the GET data is processed, PHP generates a
page with a form, and the data is plugged into some input fields. The
page is sent to the user's browser for editing and approval, and
there's where the problem shows up. Here's the transformation...
Say we have a page with the title "Here's the page" (minus the
outer quotes)
Page title: --> Here's the page // the title gets
encodeURIComponent
PHP gets --> Here\'s the page // a backslash gets
inserted somehow.
HTML form --> Here\ // truncated!
I don't know why this is happening, or what to do about it. I tried
using PHP stripslashes() and that doesn't do it. What do I need to
do?
