Is it necessary to include the 'http:' in the DB field?
It would make your life a lot easier to drop it.
You would then store the url values as
www.mydomain.com
Then, modify your code to add the 'HTTP' whenever it encounter a URL, or
wherever you will create a link.
This would eliminate the need to deal with special characters...
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Paul Warner wrote:
> Simon-
>
> Thanks for the tip...I trued using the htmlspecialchars() which allowed the
> remainder of the form to display properly, but left no value in the
> textarea. Then I noticed a difference in the method I was using compared to
> yours - I'm still learning the ways of PHP so it will take me a while to
> determine the significance of the syntax differences:
>
> Mine: <td width = "60%"><?php echo $linkurl . '<br><textarea
> value="htmlspecialchars($linkurl)"></textarea></td>\n' ?>
>
> Yours: <?php echo "<textarea>" . htmlspecialchars($link) . "</textarea>" ?>
>
> I wanted a graphical representation of the present link displayed above the
> textarea and then attempted to use php's substitution to build the text area
> within the same string. I updated my code to be more like yours and arrived
> at:
>
> <?php echo $linkurl . '<br><form>'?><?php echo "<textarea>" .
> htmlspecialchars($linkurl) . "</textarea>\n"?>
>
> which seems to make the parser behave as I intended.
>
> Anyway...thanks!
>
> -- Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Garner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Paul Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] pop textarea field w/ text incl. quotes
> >
> > Don't worry about quotes - the problem is that you have HTML markup inside
> > your <textarea>. You just need to convert < and > to < and >,
> > respectively, in your link text. The functions htmlspecialchars() or
> > strip_tags() can do this for you.
> >
> > i.e.:
> >
> > <? echo "<textarea>" . htmlspecialchars($link) . "</textarea>" ?>
> >
> > When the form is submitted (and when it's viewed), those entities will be
> > converted back to their real characters automatically by the browser.
> >
>
>
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