dkindler

Hi Haku, All the code is already presented in separate posts. Here is all of it: Main page: mini_banner.php <form action="mini_banner.php" method="get"> <table> <tr> <td colspan="5"> <input type="text" name="text1" style="width: 185px; height:17px;" value="<?php echo $_GET[text1]; ?>" /> </textarea> </td> </tr> </table> <input type="submit" value="Create banners" /> </form> <table cellpadding="10"> <?php if ($_GET[text1]) { $text1=$_GET[text1]; echo "<tr><td><IMG src='mini_off.php?text1=$text1'></td></tr>"; } ?> </table> Graphic banner program: <?php header('Content-type: image/gif'); session_cache_limiter('public'); // Create the image $imgname1 = 'mini_banner_on.gif'; $im1 = @imagecreatefromgif($imgname1); $gel = imagecolorallocate($im1, 36, 35, 35); imagefilledrectangle($im1, 200, 1, 209, 64, $gel); $grey1 = imagecolorallocate($im1, 101, 118, 131); // The text to draw $text1 = $_GET[text1]; // Replace path by your own font path $font1 = 'HelvNeue_reg1.ttf'; // Add the text imagettftext($im1, 10.5, 0, 16, 23, $grey1, $font1, $text1); imagegif($im1); imagedestroy($im1); ?> I tried using post instead of get. That made it worse. Seems like the text is not being passed at all, although I am not sure why. Thanks.

Hi Haku, thanks for your help. The application is a web page that creates a simple banner using the GD library. It accepts some text, calls itself and runs the banner creating program (mini_off.php). When the page is loaded it checks if the form variable has been submitted (text1), if so, it runs mini_off.php and the image appears and the text is also redisplayed in the input textarea, in case the user wants to make any changes. here is the basic code for mini_on.php <?php header('Content-type: image/gif'); session_cache_limiter('public'); // Create the image $imgname1 = 'mini_banner_on.gif'; $im1 = @imagecreatefromgif($imgname1); $gel = imagecolorallocate($im1, 36, 35, 35); imagefilledrectangle($im1, 200, 1, 209, 64, $gel); $grey1 = imagecolorallocate($im1, 101, 118, 131); // The text to draw $text1 = $_GET[text1]; // Replace path by your own font path $font1 = 'HelvNeue_reg1.ttf'; // Add the text imagettftext($im1, 10.5, 0, 16, 23, $grey1, $font1, $text1); imagegif($im1); imagedestroy($im1); ? This runs fine if the text inputed has no special characters. If a single quote is entered, for example, the quote is replaced with 2 forward slashes and the input text area on the form also gets a forward slash in front of the quote since it is calling itself. I have tried using htmlspecialchars when calling mini_on.php and using various combinations of urlencode and urldecode to get both the form text input value and the banner text to show up properly and I cannot get it to work. I think if I were to separate the pages and have the form call another page that might work better but I want to keep it this way in case the banner text is incorrect the user can make a quick change. I can not provide a link to the code in action because it is on an internal site behind a firewall. thanks again for any help you can provide.

Special characters like single and double quotes are not handled properly. Not sure how to handle these characters when passing to the other file that creates the banner image.

I have the following form that is self-calling that needs to be able to handle special characters like ' or ". Not sure what the right combination of htmlspecialchars or urlencode is to get this to work properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, David <form action="mini_banner.php" method="get"> <table> <tr> <td colspan="5"> <input type="text" name="text1" style="width: 185px; height:17px;" value="<?php echo $_GET[text1]; ?>" /> </textarea> </td> </tr> </table> <input type="submit" value="Create banners" /> </form> <table cellpadding="10"> <?php if ($_GET[text1]) { $text1=$_GET[text1]; echo "<tr><td><IMG src='mini_off.php?text1=$text1'></td></tr>"; } ?> </table>