Re: Converting ampersand in QuickForm

Ohh...I finally get what you mean now. I have to set the charset in the header to the language I want to input inorder for PHP to insert the raw characters into the database. Otherwise, if my charset is the default iso charset, it will convert the characters into html entities and insert the entities into the database. You was what you meant right? This is the first time I am using PEAR. Usual forms insert into database doesn't convert the raw text into html entities. PEAR does. Like what you said, it is for a purpose. Thanks a lot. :) Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com> wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:30:57 -0800 (PST), fluidliqatyahoodotcom wrote: > So i have something like this... > > require_once "HTML/QuickForm.php"; > $form = new HTML_QuickForm("form"); > $form->addElement("text", "txtName", "Enter: ", > array("value" => "&"); > $form->display(); > > Now yes, the value of the text element is an ampersand "&" in there. But the HTML > is converted to its entities & > Is there a way to have its HTML of the ampersand to be in its own character, "&", > rather than "&"? > I need this for a purpose. > How many times do you need to hear this? This is done *for a purpose*. QF assumes that any strings you give it are the actual strings you want displayed and then converts the entities *as it should*. A single ampersand is technically incorrect in an HTML document. I realize that your text already had entities in it (#12345;) but this should not be. You should be making it so that your DB does not have these entities. It should have the raw text. How are these entires getting into the DB? If it's a script you wrote, what charset is set on that page? Have you tried changing it? How about using chr to convert these? I have not tested this, but: $str = preg_replace('/&#(\d+);/e', 'chr(\1)', $str); -- Justin Patrin --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web