Re: Is there no one who can help me out there.

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:59, John Holcomb wrote: > I have a text input field in my form. I need the user > to be able to enter something like: Hello, I need # > help. After which they click on a submit button. The > succeeding page then takes this text and tries to > display it and tries to store "Hello, I need # help" > in a varchar field in a mysql table column. The > mysql database is truncating the # sign and the text > succeeding the # sign. Also, absolutly no text is > being diplayed on the succeeding web page. I've tried > using addslashes() and I was warned against using > htmlentities(). Also, I'm not sure if I'm dealing > with 2 issues: A mysql issue and a html issue. Or, am > I dealing with one issue: A mysql issue or an HTML > issue. > > I know think my problem is that when I pass text to > another page with the # sign, it's interpreting it as > a comment. Is their any way to somehow escape the # > sign. > Works OK for me in an INPUT TYPE=TEXT. Perhaps a bit of your code and the table structure might help? -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Sorry, I don't date outside my species.