[FX.php List] Displaying & Updating comments

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Sorry, typo Read not Real

On 7/18/06, AC <ac at pottnerconsulting.ca> wrote:
> Sorry if this screws something up, I had to copy it from the website
> and then e-mail it.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "Real the sample that is in FX.zip?"
> If you're asking if I can update regular text fields the answer is yes.
> Am I using the latest copy of FX, yes.
> Are you saying there's a sample file in the FX folder that shows how to
> display & update a comment field that may contain HTML code, if so
> could you tell which file specifically?
> If you're suggesting that I should read the documentation that came
> with FX, I have.
>
> Just to clarify my problem, when I use the command
> <? echo('<P><FONT SIZE="+1">' . $ResultOne['Comment'][0] .
> '</FONT></P>' . "\r\n"); ?>
> and the comment includes text like "<B>" it turns all text after it to
> bold.
>
> I used the htmlentities() & str_replace() which fixed the problem for
> display purposes, however I can't seem to get this to work for updating
> records.
> If the user types
> a'a"a\a
> into the comment field, then the database will contain the text
> a\'a\"a\\a
>
> I tried using
> $Search->AddDBParam('Comment', str_replace('\\\\', '\\',
> str_replace('\"', '"', str_replace("\'", "'", $_REQUEST['Comment']))));
> which works unless a user uses the funny single or double quotes.  I
> assume there's an easier way to do this and I was hoping someone could
> point me in the right direction.
>
>
>
>
>
> ggt667 at gmail.com  wrote:
> 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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