Stupid question...

Brad

This is a dumb question, but its late and I can't figure it out. I am storing articles for my website in a table. Now, when I call the info from the table, I run into a problem with my $full_story variable. The full stories contain HTML code and when I echo or print the variable, the links and images are displayed as the code not as the actual link. How do I get the variable to print and get the HTML code in the variable to be rendered as HTML and not as text?
thanks in advance for answering a stupid question.

TheDefender

You got some output code to share? I personally don't have that problem, and am wondering if you are washing your variable thorugh any kind of function prior to outputting...

Brad

Ok. here is what Im doing. Im not using any functions or anything.

$query = "Select * from articles where id = " .$id. "";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$num_results = mysql_num_rows($result);

							 echo "<table width='100%' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='2'>";

							 for ($i = 0; $i < $num_results; $i++)
								{																	
								$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
								$id = htmlspecialchars( stripslashes($row['id']));
								$title = htmlspecialchars( stripslashes($row['title']));
								$full_story = htmlspecialchars( stripslashes($row['full_story']));
								$post_by - htmlspecialchars( stripslashes($row['post_by']));

								echo "  <tr>";
								echo "		<td class='blkText'>";
								echo			$title;
								echo "		</td>";
								echo "	</tr>";
								echo "  <tr>";
								echo "		<td class='blkText'>";
								print 			("$post_by");
								echo "		</td>";
								echo "	</tr>";
								echo "  <tr>";
								echo "		<td class='blkText'>";
								print 			("$full_story");
								echo "		</td></tr>";			
								}
								echo "</table>";

I hope that helps. When I view the articles the $full_story variable ends up a full blob of text. I only have 2 <hr> tags one image tag and 3 link tags in the image. You can view the out put of the code at http://www.adrenaline-magazine.com/demo/articles/article.php?id=1

TheDefender

OK, so if I am reading you right, you are storing the HTML right into the table, right?

What does your output look like when you don't use the htmlspecialchars function on the output?

$full_story = stripslashes($row['full_story']);

Brad

THanks for the help. I knew it was something stupid. I was just too tired to figure it out!

TheDefender

You're welcome. Be sure to mark the thread resolved by clicking on the "Mark Thread Resolved" link at the bottom. Have a good one!