IE cutting into a form field?

viveleroi0

I have a php script that simply interprets data from a textarea field on a form. Ther form uses the method POST. Sometimes, Internet Explorer will cut the data in the textarea field at the first NUMBER present in the field. The rest of the the text will be lost forever.

Yet this does not always happen, and it never happens on Firebird/Netscape etc. Yet the user of the software needs to use IE...

Have any of you ever heard of that?

Volitics

Post the PHP code that processes the text input from the textarea field and let us take a look at it.

viveleroi0

Here is the textarea code from within the form:

Description<br />
<textarea cols=\"45\" rows=\"8\" name=\"ProdDesc\"></textarea>

Here is the part of the code that processes the info. It takes some image addresses from a previous form, gets the image width and height and runs a function to scale the images down. Then, the code you see below generates IMG SRC code, then the ProdDesc field from above (which is text and measurements), are both saved to fields in the database.

	$Image_Array=Image_Tool($Image1);
	$Scale_Width=$Image_Array[0];
	$Scale_Height=$Image_Array[1];
	$Image_SRC1="<a href=\"images.php?File=$Image1\"><img src=\"$Image1\" width=\"$Scale_Width\" height=\"$Scale_Height\" border=\"0\"></a>";
	$Adj_Image_SRC1=addslashes($Image_SRC1);
	$New_Prod_Desc="$ProdDesc";

Then, it's added to the database (mysql)

$Adj_New_Prod_Desc=addslashes($New_Prod_Desc);

$NewProd2="UPDATE $Product_DB SET ProdDesc=\"$Adj_New_Prod_Desc\", ProdImage=\"$Adj_Image_SRC1\" WHERE ID=\"$NewProdID\"";
mysql_query($NewProd2) or die ("<p>Error performing query: $Product_DB " . mysql_error() . "</p>");

Volitics

Gee, I can't tell for sure. Someone with more experience than myself probably needs to answer your question.

I had a problem similar to what you're experiencing a few weeks ago. It turned out that my script was choking on on an extra slash so I had to stripslash() the input.

What may be happening is your script could be choking on the "addslashes" function. I think that PHP and MySQL automatically adds slashes before insertion in the database. A backslash itself has to be escaped or "backslashed". If the backslash is not escaped the script won't work.

If you've been working with programming for any length of time I'm sure you've figured out by now that Netscape is a far superior browser than IE. Netscape might automatically correct the problem. That could be why it works with Netscape but won't work with IE.

I have another suggestion. Instead of storing the entire IMG SRC string into the database I would have separate columns for $Width and $Height in my DB table. I know it's a little bit more work at the start but I think you'll find it makes it less complicated when you're debugging scripts.