[FX.php List] Displaying & Updating comments

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Real the sample that is in FX.zip?

ggt667

On 7/18/06, AC <ac at pottnerconsulting.ca> wrote:
> I'm fairly new to FX, PHP and HTML.
> I need to do the following with a comments field;
>     - display it on the web
>     - pass it as a hidden value to be entered into the database
>     - pre-populate a textarea with it again to be put into the database
>
> If I just display the comments then text like" <B>" makes the rest of
> the characters that follow bold.
> I tried htmlentities() which worked but gave me "&#8221" instead of a
> quote.
> Now I'm using str_replace() to substitute the text "&#8221"  back to a
> quote.
> My problem with this is it still doesn't cover things like multiple
> spaces and carriage returns.
> I also have issues when a user enters weird quotes, I can't seem to
> write those to the database at all.
>
> How should I be doing this?
>
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