</TEXTAREA> inside textarea = Problem

[halojoy]

<?php

$text=
'<TEXTAREA rows="4" cols="32">
This is some text.
</TEXTAREA>
This is my code';

if(isset($_POST['txarea']))
    $text=$_POST['txarea'];

// display form
echo '<form action="" method="POST">';
echo '<TEXTAREA rows="10" cols="50" name="txarea">';
echo $text;
echo '</TEXTAREA>';
echo '<p><input type="submit"></p>';
echo '</form>';

When the </TEXTAREA> END-tag is written into a textarea
this tag is NOT displayed
and the rest of text is outside of textarea.

I am writing a PHP/HTML Editor using textarea for editing.
Does anybody know the solution to this Problem?

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[Houdini]

Not really sure what it is you are doing but here this will do something, maybe not what you want but it works

<?php
$text="<TEXTAREA rows='4' cols='32'>
This is some text.
</TEXTAREA>
This is my code";
if(isset($_POST['txarea']))
    $text=$_POST['txarea'];
// display form
echo '<form action="" method="POST">';
echo '<TEXTAREA rows="10" cols="50" name="txarea">';
echo $text;
echo '</TEXTAREA>';
echo '<p><input type="submit"></p>';
echo '</form>';

[Weedpacket]

[man]htmlspecialchars[/man]?

[halojoy]

Houdini code doesnt change a thing.
He might not have understood this problem.
And if he had run his own code, he would have seen 😃

I didnt think it would workwith htmlspecialchars(), but actually it does!
thanks, Weedpacket

This is my new script

<?php
$text=
'<TEXTAREA rows="4" cols="32">
This is some text.
</TEXTAREA>
This is my code';

if(isset($_POST['txarea']))
    $text=$_POST['txarea'];

$text= htmlspecialchars($text,ENT_NOQUOTES);

// display form
echo '<form action="" method="POST">';
echo '<TEXTAREA rows="10" cols="50" name="txarea">';
echo $text;
echo '</TEXTAREA>';
echo '<p><input type="submit"></p>';
echo '</form>';

The resulting HTML output will be:

<TEXTAREA rows="4" cols="32">
This is some text.
</TEXTAREA>
This is my code

... and this will display correctly inside textarea.

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