[FX.php List] How to modify textarea text for posting back to FM

[Dale Bengston]

Hi William,

I still use stripslashes() when placing data in a textarea, but  
that's it. Could the square boxes result from the charset encoding  
used on your page? Some time ago, someone gave me this cheat sheet  
for encoding:

FM7SA
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

FM5-6U US
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

FM5-6U EU
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;  
charset=iso-8859-15">


Maybe this will make the squares go away?

Dale

On May 8, 2006, at 7:37 PM, William Akey wrote:

> Hi Dale,
>
> Thanks.  I will check out the link you indicated. I already knew  
> about  the
> use of stripslashes(), nl2br() and other functions for the  purpose of
> properly displaying text on a web page that has been drawn from a  
> FileMaker
> database.
>
> What I am asking about is the less discussed reverse process: i.e,  
> how to
> correctly modify multi-paragraph text that has been displayed in a  
> textarea
> element on a web page and modified by an end user so that, when it  
> is posted
> back to the database via an FMEdit() command, it will end up in the  
> proper
> format in the database. Hopefully that is more clear.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> William
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale Bengston" <dbengston at preservationstudio.com>
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 4:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] How to modify textarea text for posting  
> back to
> FM
>
>
>> Hi WIlliam,
>>
>> stripslashes() can help, and nl2br() will properly format the
>> paragraphs. You can find these and all sorts of string-manipulation
>> magic at
>>
>> <http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Dale Bengston
>>
>> On May 8, 2006, at 4:38 PM, William Akey wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Apologies if this has come up numerous times before. I need to know
>>> how to properly condition textarea text contaning multiple
>>> "pagagraphs" that has been displayed and edited on a web page,
>>> before it is posted back into the FileMaker database so that I
>>> avoid getting the little square boxes showing up in the FileMaker
>>> text fields.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
>>>
>>> William
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