Hello,
I'm trying to store HTML (that is cut-n-paste from source)
into a textarea field on a web page. As it's submitted to
the php page that processes it, the database column that
it ends up with strips the "<" and ">" out of the html
so that it doesn't end up in the source.
Example.... I can cut-n-paste... the following into a textarea...
--------------original test html code------------------------
<i>this is supposed to be in italics</i>
<b>this is supposed to be bold</b>
<table>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">Column 1, Row 1</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Column 2, Row 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">Column 1, Row 2</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Column 2, Row 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
-------------------------------------------------------------
... and process it with htmlentities() by the receiving php page
as it will show...
----original code as received and displayed in php processing page------
<i>this is supposed to be in italics</i>
<b>this is supposed to be bold</b>
<table>
<tr>
<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Column 1, Row 1</td>
<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Column 2, Row 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Column 1, Row 2</td>
<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Column 2, Row 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Which I can deal with easily enough... but when the same
is posted, processed (w/ htmlentities), and retrieved from the
MySQL database, I receive the following ....
--------------original code as retrieved from database------------------
i this is supposed to be in italics /i
b this is supposed to be bold /b
table
tr
td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" Column 1, Row 1 /td
td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" Column 2, Row 1 /td
/tr
tr
td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" Column 1, Row 2 /td
td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" Column 2, Row 2 /td
/tr
/table
------------------------------------------------------------------------
What am I doing wrong? This just can't be rocket science.
There's probably something essential that I'm missing.
Thanks much....
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