After I sent this message I looked at the code again. I saw the error as
obvious as daylight. It's working great now.
Thanks.....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Edberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Shane McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Help w/ quotes/html and data from MySQL
> At 4:47 PM -0500 1/23/01, Shane McBride wrote:
> >I have a field in MySQL that holds data that may look like this:
> >
> ><b>Rose Painting</b>"Looks really nice, blah, blah"<b>25.00</b>
> >
> >Now, I want to pull that data back into a form <textarea> to edit.
> >Here's how I have unsuccessfully been doing it:
> >
> >?>
> >.... beginning code
> ><td>Description:</td>
> ><td><textarea name=\"description\" value='$description' cols=\"50\"
> >rows=\"5\"></textarea></td>
> >...ending code
> >?>
> >
> >I looks like that the embedded html in the MySQL data is actually
> >being "rendered" (for the lack of a better term).
> >How can I get the whole chunk of data back into the form?
> >
>
>
> Well, if you're using PHP:
>
> echo
> '<td>Description:</td>',
> '<td><textarea name="description" cols="50" rows="5">',
> htmlentities($description),
> '</textarea></td>'
> ;
>
> Presumably, other web development languages have an equivalent
> construct to PHP's htmlentities().
>
> Also, the value of a textarea tag is not put in a 'value' attribute
> within the tag as with the INPUT tag; it is put in the textarea
> 'container' - that is, between the <textarea> and </textarea> tags.
>
> - steve
>
>
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