Re: pop textarea field w/ text incl. quotes

This must be why you guys get paid the big $$ <g>. I _never_ thought of looking at the HTML for errors, doh! Given the nature of the user who will be inputting the data (familiar with HTML) I will probable keep this 'quick-n-dirty' for now - I do like the multiple fields concept for future mods as it will allow for less-HTML literate users to easily build their links. Thanks a bunch! -- Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Garner" <sgarner@expio.co.nz> To: "John Monfort" <monfort@kahuna.engineering.sdsu.edu>; "Paul Warner" <pwarner@winners-circle.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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>"; > ?>