Its just occurred to me....
You're saying that when the form is submitted the formfields are going into
a URL string.... This usually happens when a method is specified in the
form tag. The default method is GET and not POST.
Make sure you have <form action="yourpage.cfm" method="POST">
Regards
Stephen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nichols, Robert H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 16 May 2001 14:05
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Strange characters
>
>
> More of a CF question than a fusebox question, though it is
> taking place in
> a fusebox enabled application.... :)
>
> I have a form with a text area for the client to enter comments.
> the trick
> though is that I have to allow the user to type single quotes (')
> and double
> quotes (") along with whatever other strange variables they want.
> However,
> I am choking when I try to insert their queries into the database. has
> anyone ever done this? if so, how did you do it?
>
> The only thing I have come up with so far is URLEncoding it before placing
> it in the database and the URLDecoding it when it comes out.
> However, that
> seems overtly complicated. Can anyone suggest a better way?
>
> Robert H. Nichols
> Web Developer
> Center for Engineering & Environmental Technologies
> Information Delivery Systems <http://ids.rti.org>
> Research Triangle Institute
> Voice: 919-541-8009 Fax: 919-541-6936
>
>
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