Proper HTML display within a textarea.

Anon

Hello,

I am attempting to make a simple CMS for my website that can store templates and template sets within a database. I can get MySQL to properly store everything where it should be stored, but when I try to pull it up and display it in a textarea so I can edit it alot of the tags are missing and/or incomplete.

It seems that only HTML tags will not display properly, the text stays the same.

Now I tried to see that maybe the data was corrupted somehow, but when I use the 'print' function it displays EVERYTHING that 'should' be displayed within the textarea.

Could anyone give some insight on this?

techek

Have you tried to replace all "<" and ">" with "<" and "gt;"? Because the browser might be trying to parse the HTML inside the textarea and therefore hiding it ...

Anon

I think the problem may be that when you are adding it to the database quotes are being slashed, or perhaps the html is interfering with the textarea open/close tags. I am not sure what the problem may be, but before I insert content into a database I use this function:

function text_make_html ($str,$nl=FALSE) {
$str=trim($str);
$str=stripslashes($str);
$str=htmlentities($str,ENT_NOQUOTES);
//if $nl then add in the line breaks auto
if ($nl) {
$str=nl2br($str);
$str=ereg_replace("\\n","",$str);
$str=ereg_replace("\\r","",$str);
$str=ereg_replace(" "," ",$str);
}
$str = ereg_replace(" & ", " & ", $str);
$str=addslashes($str);
return $str;
}

I then use this function to extract it out into a textarea:

function text_make_textarea_compat ($str) {
$str=stripslashes($str);
$str=ereg_replace(" ","\n",$str);
$str=ereg_replace(" ","\n",$str);
return $str;
}

and this function to extract it out into a input box:

function text_make_form_compat ($str) {
$str=stripslashes($str);
$str=ereg_replace("\"",""",$str);
$str=ereg_replace(" ","\n",$str);
$str=ereg_replace(" ","\n",$str);
return $str;
}

Hope this helps,
Chris