Hidden field not conveying text right, cuts off.

[Volitics]

Hello.

I've got a problem with passing paragraph text using a hidden field.

If I put a news article in a hidden field when it displays/outputs on the next page it cuts off after the first line of text (if I use wordwrap function) or after the first paragraph.

Can anybody tell me how to fix it?

// PageOne.php using form (form points to PageTwo.php)
$NewsStory = wordwrap($NewsStory, 75, "\n", 1);
<input type="hidden" name="NewsStory" value="Paragraph1 Paragraph1
Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1

Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2
Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2"

// PageTwo.php The above outputs this:
Paragraph1 Paragraph1

// If I remove the wordwrap() it helps but
// it still cuts off after the first paragraph.
<input type="hidden" name="NewsStory" value="Paragraph1 Paragraph1
Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1

Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2
Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2 Paragraph2"

// PageTwo.php The above outputs this:
Paragraph1 Paragraph1
Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1 Paragraph1
// It cuts off after the end of the first paragraph.

Thanks.

[solodesignz]

What are you using to post the data, or get the data from the hidden form field?

[leatherback]

Hi,

As far as I know, there is a maximum amount of info you can submit in variables. I think that may be giving you the headache..

Maybe try inserting a long string of text, and see whether that breaks as well..?

J.

[Volitics]

I got it figured out. I knew this but I forgot. What works is urlencode()

What urlencode() does is replaces spaces and carriage returns with characters and then puts text in long strings like so:

<input type="hidden" value="The+number+of+Reserve+...">
and
<input type="hidden" value="+peak+of+nearly+220%2C000+after+...">

What I'm wondering now is there any reason that I need to use urldecode on the other end.

All I'm doing on the receiving side is using stripslashes() and it looks like it's working fine. Hope I'm not overlooking anything by not using the urldecode.

[solodesignz]

are you posting the data useing GET ?? Otherwise I dont see why you would need to do that.

[Volitics]

I'm using the POST method. Whew! I ran into a bucket of worms.

What I'm doing is using the urldecode() function to format the text when I SELECT it from the database and output the text on the page.

I tried to apply the urldecode() just before inserting the text into the database. The MySQL INSERT statement won't work.

Evidently it's the carriage return in the text that's causing the problem. The text input box is a multiple-line box. I'm having to use the urlencode() for the text from the multiple-line text inbox boxes.

The text string from the single-line text inbox boxes inserts into the database without the urlencode(). The only text that needs the urlencode() function is the text where there's carriage returns.