Re: Problem displaying a mysql database field

Don wrote: > Hi, > > I have a varchar field in a MySQL database that contains a line of text like > so: > > "This is a line if text" > > The double quotes are included in the database field. > > I cannot seem to display it on my HTML page, it always shows as blank. I > have tried using both the stripslashes() and the html_entity_decode() but it > still shows as blank. > > How can I display this please??? post some code and maybe someone can help. also use var_dump() et al to dump the contents of the vars/vals you retrieve from the DB - that might give you a clue. and lastly have you tried do 'view source' in order to try and understand what might be going on? > > Tks, > Don >