Re: Re: Need help storing and displaying html/text!

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:03, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > Hmmm... I guess no one is doing this??? Seems fairly common. Patience. You should allow 1 day to give every list subscriber a chance to read your post. > "Shawn McKenzie" <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote in message > news:20030210220142.1944.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > > I have a form and I want the user to be able to enter html in a text > > area. This will then be stored in an array in a config file. Example > > $htmlstuff[1] = '<script type="text/javascript>some stuff > > here</script>'; > > > > When they visit the form again it will display as they entered it and > > they can modify it and save it back to the array. The problem is I keep > > getting > > > multiple \ on the single and double quotes every time they submit the > > form, > > > as well as multiple newlines and trailing spaces. > > > > I have looked at and tried combinations of stripslashes(), > > htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities(), so I don't need a link to the PHP > > manual. I can't find the right combination and don't know when to do > > what to get this to work. Can anyone give me a good example? The new recommended settings for magic_quotes_* are OFF so in psuedo-code: INPUT get data from post/get and validate html_entity_decode() the data addslashes() to data and insert into DB OUTPUT get data from DB htmlentities() the data output it -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* The answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is... Four day work week, Two ply toilet paper! */