What's the difference between this and the serialize() function?
Erik On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 11:27 PM, Demitrious S. Kelly wrote: > It breaks the individual characters down into their ascii equivalent, > and makes it one big 'numerical' string... then breaks the string back > into separate values and translates each value back into a character, > then recreates the string from the characters... > > I got sick of slashing and un slashing and validating, and revalidating, > etc, etc, etc, etc so I made this. Which makes things 1000% simpler > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 8:11 PM > To: Demitrious S. Kelly; 'PHP General' > Subject: RE: [PHP] Variables containing HTML? > > Right on!!! - This works great!! > > Can you explain what it does ;) - i'm completly lost in it ;) > > //Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Demitrious S. Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 8:02 PM > To: 'Nick Richardson'; 'PHP General' > Subject: RE: [PHP] Variables containing HTML? > > > Try these... > > function encode($string) { > $string=stripslashes($string); > $temp=''; > $newstring=''; > for ( $counter=0; $counter != 9999; $counter++ ) { > $temp=substr($string, $counter, 1); > if ( $temp == '' ) { > break; > } > $newstring=$newstring . str_pad( ord($temp), 3, "0", > STR_PAD_LEFT); > } > return ($newstring); > } > > function decode($string) { > $temp=''; > $newstring=''; > for ( $counter=0; $counter != 9999; $counter+=3 ) { > $temp=substr($string, $counter, 3); > if ( $temp == '' ) { > break; > } > $newstring=$newstring . chr($temp); > } > return ($newstring); > } > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 7:56 PM > To: PHP General > Subject: [PHP] Variables containing HTML? > > Stupid question for everyone... i'm just having one of those braindead > moments. > > I have a page which allows users to add custom headers and footers in > HTML. > (i.e. Fill in a text area with a bunch of html, and that's stored in a > mysql > database and retrived when that user logs in again). > > The problem i'm having is this: > > When a users fills in all the info, and hits submit, they are taken to a > preview page which renders everything and has an accept button. > If i try to store the header and footer data in a hidden input it just > renders it on the screen (if it's more than one line it gets even > worse). > > How can i get this info (variable w/ strings that are QUITE long, and > include quotes and apostrophes) from the form they are entered on, into > a > preview page, then back into the script to be written into the database? > > I have thought about sessions, and they work until the user decides they > dont like the way it turned out and try to discard and change it, even > after > re-registering the variables in the session, they do not change to the > new > input. > > I hope someone out there can make sence of what i have said... because i > think i confused even myself.... ;) > > Thanks for any help! > > //Nick Richardson > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
