Addt'l Characters

[Anon]

This problem has been driving me up the wall for 1 week now.

I have an input form that puts the data into a MySQL database. There is another form that allows the user to bring up that specific information to edit. The problem that I am having is with <textarea> input.

Whenever the information is retrieved for edit, somewhere additional non-printing characters are added to the end of the text line (they look like tabs). I have tried the following code both when writing the data to the database and also when retrieving it for output onto the screen:

$comments=stripslashes($comments);
$comments=ereg_replace("&#09;", "", $comments);
$comments=trim($comments);

What is going on here. Any and ALL suggestions are welcome. By the way, I have only been using Apache, MySQL and PHP4 for 2 weeks, but am loving every minute. It also shows the strength of PHP when someone with no previous experience or knowledge is able to build some crude but highly functional applications in less than two weeks.

[Anon]

I believe your problem is actually in your HTML. I have run into a similar problem before. I would be willing to wager that your text area declaration looks something like:
<textarea name = "yada" rows = "2" cols = 3">
probably some neato php here
</textarea>

The above syntax will cause problems with additional garbage going into the field. To fix it, you just need to change the code so that it is all on one line:
<textarea name = "yada" rows = "2" cols = 3">probably php here</textarea>

That should do the trick...so long as its the same problem I think it is...🙂

Good Luck!
Darren