Re: storing and then displaying HTML for update
| From: | Chris | Date: | Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:03:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: storing and then displaying HTML for update | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Rod Clay wrote:
> I'm writing a php application which includes accepting and storing HTML
> for routine display by the application. All of this seems to be working
> fine.
>
> However, I also want to display the raw HTML for administrators of the
> system to update as necessary. I just discovered that this does NOT
> seem to be working. When I attempt to put this raw HTML into a textarea
> field on my page, I get unpredictable results.
It's probably not being escaped properly when it's being put in the
textarea - which means a ">" in the content will close the textarea and
start it's own tags etc.
Try:
$textarea_content = htmlspecialchars($content, ENT_QUOTES);
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