Bug #13953 Updated: HTML Entities and $HTTP_POST_VARS
ID: 13953
Updated by: sander
Reported By: markm@sprintout.com
Old Status: Open
Status: Feedback
Bug Type: Arrays related
Operating System: Free BSD 4.2
PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1
New Comment:
Why are you using multipart/formdata? That shouldn't be necessary. Try using a simple
<form> tag like <form action="script.php" method="post">.
Does it work this way?
Previous Comments:
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[2001-11-06 09:17:23] markm@sprintout.com
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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