Re: pop textarea field w/ text incl. quotes

From: "John Monfort" <monfort@kahuna.engineering.sdsu.edu> > > > Is it necessary to include the 'http:' in the DB > field? > > It would make your life a lot easier to drop it. > > You would then store the url values as > www.mydomain.com > > Then, modify your code to add the 'HTTP' whenever it encounter a URL, or > wherever you will create a link. > > This would eliminate the need to deal with special characters... > No it wouldn't, as the http:// is not the problem, the problem is the HTML markup. What Paul could do is have two DB fields, for the URL and the link text, and then form the <A> tag at runtime instead of in the data. But this maybe is not what he wants. Eg <?php $linkurl = "http://www.blah.com"; $linktext = "Blah"; echo "<a href=\"$linkurl\">$linktext</a>"; ?> > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Paul Warner wrote: > > > Simon- > > > > Thanks for the tip...I trued using the htmlspecialchars() which allowed the > > remainder of the form to display properly, but left no value in the > > textarea. Then I noticed a difference in the method I was using compared to > > yours - I'm still learning the ways of PHP so it will take me a while to > > determine the significance of the syntax differences: > > > > Mine: <td width = "60%"><?php echo $linkurl . > > '<br><textarea > > value="htmlspecialchars($linkurl)"></textarea></td>\n' ?> > > > > Yours: <?php echo "<textarea>" . htmlspecialchars($link) . > > "</textarea>" ?> > > > > I wanted a graphical representation of the present link displayed above the > > textarea and then attempted to use php's substitution to build the text area > > within the same string. I updated my code to be more like yours and arrived > > at: > > > > <?php echo $linkurl . '<br><form>'?><?php echo > > "<textarea>" . > > htmlspecialchars($linkurl) . "</textarea>\n"?> > > > > which seems to make the parser behave as I intended. > > > > Anyway...thanks! > > > > -- Paul > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Simon Garner" <sgarner@expio.co.nz> > > To: "Paul Warner" <pwarner@winners-circle.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:19 PM > > Subject: Re: [PHP] pop textarea field w/ text incl. quotes > > > > > > Don't worry about quotes - the problem is that you have HTML markup inside > > > your <textarea>. You just need to convert < and > to &lt; and > > > &gt;, > > > respectively, in your link text. The functions htmlspecialchars() or > > > strip_tags() can do this for you. > > > > > > i.e.: > > > > > > <? echo "<textarea>" . htmlspecialchars($link) . > > > "</textarea>" ?> > > > > > > When the form is submitted (and when it's viewed), those entities will be > > > converted back to their real characters automatically by the browser. > > > > >