html php quote escape

[verbatim210]

here is the problem:
$name = 'O\'brian';

echo "<td>Leader:</td> <td><input type=text value='$name' name=leader></td><tr>"; 

Any ideas? Thanks.

So far I have tried:
\ escape symbol before the '
mysql_escape_string()
addslashes()

No success, the output is always Leader: O
everything after the ' will not print.

I was going to post this, but then a friend help me solved the problem so incase anyone is interested here is the modified code that works:

echo '<td>Leader:</td> <td><input type=text value="'; echo$name; echo'" name=leader></td><tr>'; 

[Modred]

It would probably be simpler to just concatentate the variables together:

echo '<td>Leader:</td> <td><input type=text value="'.$name.'" name=leader></td><tr>'; 

Code comes out much cleaner (and less to type, too). Of course, you'll need to ensure $name doesn't contain quote marks, as that will throw off your HTML. You might want to try htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars() to handle that.