RE: [PHP] Variables containing HTML?

[Nick Richardson]

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


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