Re: html entities

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:44:03 -0800 (PST), fluidliq@yahoo.com <fluidliq@yahoo.com> wrote: > The values are stored in the db in a blob type field. So I assume it is > stored in its own character. It is fine when displaying on ordinary pages.. > It just doesn't show the characters when I want it to display as values of > the text elements of QuickForm. And now I want it to show the characters as > the values of the text elements instead of the HTML entities. How should I > do that? Please reply to the list. I don't know what you mean. How are is it showing up in the form? If you look at the HTML it should have, for instance: <input type="text" name="something" value="random &21335; chars"/> And it should display and get sent as the actual character. > > Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 06:03:34 -0800 (PST), fluidliq@yahoo.com > wrote: > > I have a few quickform text elements which values are grabbed from the db. > these values from the db are of asian characters. it has no problem showing > up the characters in normal html text element. I guess PHP PEAR had > converted the characters into HTML entities like 21335;"û before displaying > it. > > Now, how do I convert them to their actual characters and display them as > the value of the text elements? > > i had something like this now... > > $form->addElement("text", "txtName", "Name", > > array("value" => > html_entity_decode($rows['name'])); > > but this doesn't work. > > > > please help me > > > > Are these stored in the DB as the actual Asian characters or the HTML > Entities? They should (IMHO) be stored as the actual chars. > > When QF displays the values it will use HTML entities because this is > the right way to display them. When they're submitted they should be > actual Asian characters again and not entities. You shouldn't have to > do any encoding or decoding. > > -- > Justin Patrin > -- Justin Patrin