Hidden form element not so hidden

chaoswuz

I'm passing data through a hidden form field. For some odd reason when this page is displayed an extra " Some sort of link" />" is displayed in the browser window. After a couple of sleepless nights I thought I call out the calvary.
Thanks

<?php

//part of an e-mail body
$mess = "<html><body>";
$mess .= '<a href="http://www.url.com"> Some sort of link<a/>';
$mess .= "</body></html>";
?>

<html><head></head><body>
A short message <BR> <?php echo $mess;?>

rincewind456

That's because you're echoing

<html>
<body>
<a href="http://www.url.com"> Some sort of link<a/>';
</body>
</html>

every time you echo $mess, so the value for the hidden field contains the link,what do you want it to do

chaoswuz

rincewind456 wrote:
That's because you're echoing
<html>
<body>
<a href="http://www.url.com"> Some sort of link<a/>';
</body>
</html>
every time you echo $mess, so the value for the hidden field contains the link,what do you want it to do

Thanks for the reply. I want to display $mess so that a user can preview an email then use the hidden field to pass it to a script to send the email.

rincewind456

then you would probaly be better of doing this

<input name="body" type="hidden" value="<?php print  htmlentities($mess); ?>" />

and using html_entity_decode() if you want to turn it back to html after it's been posted.

chaoswuz

Bless you benevolent coder!!
Dave

Nate

Also probably want to change your <a/> to </a> if you haven't already 🙂

Swardh

the reason why this happened in the first place, was because the " and " in this line

$mess .= '<a href="http://www.url.com">

then when you echo it in you <input> tag...

<input name="body" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $mess; ?>" />

...the HTML output becomes like this

<input name="body" type="hidden" value="<html><body><a href="http://www.url.com"> Some sort of link</a></body></html>" />

Now look in the value atribute... it contains too many quotes

Well, just wanted to let you know why it didnt work for ya 🙂