Display &lt; &gt; in textbox

Display < > in textbox

rasin

I save the following in mysql database:
'<MSISDN>'

but when i display it in the textbox, its shown as :
''
without <MSISDN>. How do i display the text correctly?

bad76

Hi,
use htmlentities() :

<input value="<?=htmlentities("<MSISDN>")?>"

If you don't need to use php, just use < and > instead of < and >...

see you

(...and, please, tell me what is about database in this question...) 😉

drawmack

you can't display those characters but you could define characters and replace them in the code. I wouldn't use < and > because you could run into trouble with htmlspcialchars

maybe lt and gt then you can use a regex to feed < and > to the database and lt and gt to the textbox.

rasin

how to do this ?
The whole txt that i am trying to display consist of many line.. and there is a inserted into it create the newlline...
so how can i so it?

Example of the text is

To find our the date we type

find '<MSISDN>'

drawmack

http://www.php.net/eregi_replace
http://www.php.net/preg_replace
http://www.php.net/str_replace

bad76

The source contain already tag, or do you apply nl2br() function?

If so you can first do htmlentities() before nl2br():

nl2br(htmlentities($mytextareacontent));

If you are viewing a source of html, i think you have not to convert , but display it: it's source of html.

However if you don't want convert it, just apply htmlentities($mytext) and then str_replace(" "," ",$mytext);

i hope this help you