Re: First Questions

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:12:02PM -0400, James Drabb wrote: > If you open this page up and put in jim for the user and jim for the password and > hit submit, the page shows the output of the form vars. However, if you use > jim for the username and <jim> for the password (<,> are part of the password) then > the password does not show up. What am I missing? does PHP do something else > with the posted data depending on its content? < & > are used for HTML tags, so the browser is doing this to you. You need to convert < to &lt; and > to &gt; There are a couple of PHP functions that will do this for you. -- Jason Stechschulte stech@bright.net -- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -- Aristotle