web content manager

[Bats]

Hi,

I'm building a simple web content managing tool for a website I'm working on.

The goal is that the user can easily edit web content containing html code. I'm using a text area and a submit button for this. The problem now is, that the text in the text area has changed after the user has pressed the button. " becomes \" and so on.

Is there an easy way to get rid of this systematically (so not by using str_replace)? (There must be, seems like this forum is using it 😉 )
In other words: how can I encode the text in a text area before submitting?

Thanx in advance...

Bats

[richfm]

Hi Bats,
You could pass the text through 'stripslashes'

$text_area=stripslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS["text_area"]);

This picks up the posted variable
strips the slashes and puts it back into the text_area variable.

NB: Also there is an HTMLspecialcharacters but I do not think you'll need this.

BTW why not use phpNuke... save you having to write a load of code?

regards
RichFM

[Bats]

Thanx for your help, stripslash seems to do the trick.

By the way, I'm doing all the programming my self because I consider it as a nice way to learn php 🙂

[Bats]

I have a new question.

I'm building this website, and I use a menu for navigating. The problem is that it doesn't work properly in Mozilla browsers. It does work in IE though. The code looks like this:

.
.
<form name="f2" method="post" action="index.php">
<input type="hidden" name="content" value="2">
</form>
.
.
<a class="menu" href="javascript:f2.submit()">News</a>
.
.

When a Mozilla user clicks on "News", nothing happens.
Is there a way to fix this?

Btw, I know something like index.php?content=2 works, but I hope there's a prettier way.