Hello,
I've been looking for this a while, and I just guess it is my inability to program something decent, but maybe, someone can help me out:
I can read and write to the MySQL database, using the editor. The only thing that does not work is that when I post bold text to the database, it reads the HTML in stead of parsing it and showing bold text. The $postedValue is <strong>bold text</strong>, so it get's inserted ok in the databsae.
Even more, simply echoing the database-entry in my page will also result in unformated tags-showing html.
Do I need to use something else then text as the field in the db?
Thanks,
sven
I've been looking for this a while, and I just guess it is my inability to program something decent, but maybe, someone can help me out:
I can read and write to the MySQL database, using the editor. The only thing that does not work is that when I post bold text to the database, it reads the HTML in stead of parsing it and showing bold text. The $postedValue is <strong>bold text</strong>, so it get's inserted ok in the databsae.
Even more, simply echoing the database-entry in my page will also result in unformated tags-showing html.
Do I need to use something else then text as the field in the db?
Thanks,
sven
RE: HTML not parsed when reading from MySQL
maybe I should have added that I use RC2 and PHP.
I've tried with strip and addslashes, htmlspecialchars, etc, but clear text (unparsed HTML) is all I get.
sven
RE: HTML not parsed when reading from MySQL
RE: HTML not parsed when reading from MySQL
Are you sure you don't use a function such as "htmlentities" or "urlencode". Those can explain the fact that you are finding the html code in the editor, and the correct params in the url....
So ?
Bye.
Fred.
RE: HTML not parsed when reading from MySQL
Re: HTML not parsed when reading from MySQL
thank you so much fpeyrard.. Grateful to you..