Re: [phplib] ">" in frozen textarea box From: Dima Nemchenko (Dima.Nemchenko <email protected>)
Date: 07/19/01

Mikhail Avrekh wrote:

> This is perhaps marginally related to PHPLIB, but I hope someone on this
> list have had some experience with a similar problem.
>
> I have a bunch of forms using the oohforms class. One of the forms is full
> of <textarea> elements, into which a user may paste potentially huge
> blocks of text to save in the database. I also need to display this form
> with the saved text either in an updateable format or in a read-only
> ("frozen") format depending on the privs etc.
>
> The problem is with the "frozen" form. If a user enters something like
> "a > b" into the box, this completely screws up the read-only form. The
> HTML then looks roughly like this:
>
> <hidden name=myverylongvar value='blahblahblah forever a > b more blah'>
> <table border=1><tr><td>
> blahblahblah forever a > b more blah
> </td></tr></table>
>
> ...which seems fine, except the browser appears to treat that ">" as a
> closing tag, so " b more blah", which can be quite long, pops up in plain
> text directly above the box with the text. The user freaks out. The
> developer doesn't know how to escape that ">". Any suggestions ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> M.
>
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Hi Mikkhail,

No experience with oohforms, so this might not be of any help at all! :)

ereg_replace('>','&gt;',$user_string) before you assign it to the form? But
then that wouldn't show up right in the TEXTAREA itself...

Anybody else? 

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