On Saturday 28 September 2002 09:13 pm, John W. Holmes wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andre Dubuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:14 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Sascha Cunz'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Htmlentities and Newlines? > > > > On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:59 pm, John W. Holmes wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Andre Dubuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:00 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Sascha Cunz'; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Htmlentities and Newlines? > > > > > > > > On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:42 pm, John W. Holmes wrote: > > > > > > Short question: following your advice, what would the data > > look > > > > like > > > > > > > > in > > > > > > > > > > > the > > > > > > db if I typed in: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Sascha. > > > > > > Next line is doubled. > > > > > > > > > > > > Double. > > > > > > > > > > > > How would that appear iun the db? In mine, it looks exactly > > like I > > > > > > typed > > > > > > > > > > > it > > > > > > above (using 1 & 2 with magic_quotes=on). > > > > > > > > > > It depends on your viewer, I guess. It may appear as though it's > > all > > > > on > > > > > > > > one line, but the new lines are there, regardless. > > Htmlentities() > > > > > > doesn't do anything to linebreaks... > > > > > > > > > > ---John Holmes... > > > > > > > > Hi John, > > > > > > > > Tried that > > > > > > > > Echo "<tr><td>" . nl2br(htmlentities($myrow['request'])) . and it > > > > > > appears > > > > > > > exactly as it is written (as part of the text request). Maybe if I > > try > > > > > again > > > > Monday with a fresh mind, I might discover what I'm doing wrong. > > > > > > ?? Umm..that's what should happen. It's not exact, mind you, it just > > > looks the same in the browser. Any < you had was converted to <, > > but > > > > you'd have to look at the source. A newline should now have a <br /> > > > along with it... Is that not happening? > > > > > > ---John Holmes... > > > > Nope. In the db I see it as it's displayed on-screen without any <br> > > etc. > > > Strangely, before I attempted to use htmlentities, in the db, I'd see > > text > > > like: > > > > This line<br>is broken in two.<br><br>Before this line is a > > double > > > space. > > > > Now I see: > > > > This line > > is broken in two. > > > > Before this line is a double space. > > > > I just KNOW I'm messing up here -- but where??? > > > > Andre > > OK...I think you are confused. :) > > That's what you should see in the database. You are seeing text, > newline, text, two newlines, and text. That's what should be in the > database. > > Now, when you pull that out, and run nl2br() on it, it'll show up like > this, in the source of the html output: > > This line<br /> > Is broken in two<br /> > <br /> > Before this line is a double space. > > Bottom line !!! : > > Store the data exactly as the user typed it. > > Display the data using nl2br(htmlentities($text)). > > OK? > > ---John Holmes...
Yup. Got it. Thnaks again, Andre -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
