Textarea html character Error help!

[PHPAnx]

I am using a textarea in a form to enter data to my database.

When I enter a sentence with a reserved html special character set like this one:

The boy ran with his dog… as that dog chased the cat.

… for some reason and even – won't go into my DB correctly. The DB ignores these commands??????

I am using PHP/MySQL.

Any idea how to make my database accept these??

Thanks

[scoppc]

You might need htmlentities() to secure your input. Anyway, this sentence The boy ran with his dog… as that dog chased the cat. should be inserted into the db without any problems. 😕

What kind of error messages it returned?