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Escape double quotes of HTML attributes output by PHP

Often, when writing PHP, I'll have it output some HTML content like this:

echo "<a href="../" title="link title">".$link_text."</a>";

Obviously, this won't parse as I need to escape the double quotes in the attributes of the <a> element. Is there a regular expression that would quickly do this rather than me manually adding the backslashes?

One other thing: The regular expression shouldn't escape double quotes outside of the tag (e.g., where I've appended the $link_text variable.

Solution

  • You should just use single quotes instead:

    echo '<a href="../" title="link title">' . $link_text . '</a>';