Re: QF/DataObject mangling input chars

On 5/18/05, Ken Restivo <ken@restivo.org> wrote: > I'm really confused by a strange bit of behaviour from QF when used with DataObject. > > I'm trying to save a text field that has formatting in it: mostly carriage returns and > tabs and quotations and some html special chars. > > As far as I can tell, the \n\r's are passed as actual NL/CR characters in the $vars > argument to the QuickForm::process() method. But, then when I actually assign the vars to the > DataObject, somehow the NL/CR get turned into actual literal '\', 'n', > '\', 'r' characters: 4 chars instead of 2. I have no idea why DataObject is > doing that, but it's making me crazy. The stuff then gets saved to the database that way: > utterly useless. > > Somewhere, probably inside DataObject, some magic is happening, and it's Bad magic. > What's going on here? > Ummm....no, DataObject does not normally do this. I'm using DB_DataObject (with FormBuilder) to enter all sorts of data, often including newlines. You should probably check your magic_quotes settings. What DB are you using? Perhaps DB's quoting method is incorrect for the DB you're using? -- Justin Patrin