From: markm@sprintout.com
Operating system: Free BSD 4.2
PHP version: 4.0.4pl1
PHP Bug Type: Arrays related
Bug description: HTML Entities and $HTTP_POST_VARS
I'm experiencing a strange problem with HTML entities in form input using
PHP v. 4.0.4pl1 on Apache v. 1.3.17.
My form consists of three fields:
A "select" pulldown menu to enable users to select an existing record
(field name: "InfoID");
A text field in which users enter a headline (field name: "InfoTitle");
A textarea field in which users enter text (field name: "InfoText").
The input from the form is saved in a MySQL database (v. 3.23.33).
Everything was working fine until I started adding HTML entities (e.g.,
™, •, etc.) to represent the trademark symbol, bullets, etc. in
the textarea field. I'm able to add a record to the database with HTML
entities. However, when I retrieve an existing record, make modifications
in the textarea field, and submit the input, the "selected" value from the
pulldown menu is somehow lost.
When I say "lost", I mean that the key for the pulldown input field is
actually missing when I print out $HTTP_POST_VARS (through the print_r
function) at the top of the script. If there are no HTML entities in the
textarea field, the value for the pulldown menu shows up and everything
works fine.
I can't figure out the source of the problem. The encoding type within the
<form> tag is standard:
enctype="multipart/form-data". I'm not altering the input from the pulldown
input field before submittal.
Even odder, the same form works fine with HTML entities on older versions
of PHP.
Any ideas what's going on?
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Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=13953&edit=1