[SOLVED] textarea problem

[dennismonsewicz]

echo "<div class='editor' style='text-align: center'>";
						echo "<p class='editortitle' style='font-size: 175%; padding: 4px 0px 4px 0px; margin: 0px;'>Welcome Letter</p>
			                	<textarea cols='80' rows='25' name='welcome'>" . $row['welcome'] . "</textarea>";
					echo "</div>";

 

The following code above should work right? In the database there is html tags, could this cause the content to not load?

[DeanWhitehouse]

what are the HTML tags in the database?

 

also try this

?>

<div class="editor" style="text-align: center">
<p class="editortitle" style="font-size: 175%; padding: 4px 0px 4px 0px; margin: 0px;">Welcome Letter</p>
<textarea cols="80" rows="25" name="welcome"><?php echo"" . $row['welcome'] . ""; ?></textarea>
</div>
<?php

[dennismonsewicz]

<p> and <font>

[DeanWhitehouse]

they shouldn't affect it , are they closed?

[dennismonsewicz]

yes they are closed. and I tried your code and it didn't work

 

and your code should've been this:

 

<?php echo $row['welcome'];?>

[DeanWhitehouse]

ok, soz, i am still learning.

Is it just the content not loading?

[dennismonsewicz]

yeah, i don't understand why its not loading. Everywhere I have looked (using google) suggests exactly what I am doing. Now I am using tinymce to handle my textareas but that shouldn't matter

[BlueSkyIS]

assuming you are retrieving a record and there is a field called welcome with data in it, try:

 

htmlspecialchars($row['welcome'], ENT_QUOTES);

[dennismonsewicz]

that didn't work what does the ENT_QUOTES do?

[BlueSkyIS]

are you certain that 1. you are getting a record, 2. that record has a field called welcome, and 3. that field is not empty?

 

i'd bet that one of those items is not true.

 

http://us3.php.net/htmlspecialchars

 

 

[dennismonsewicz]

I just echoed $row['welcome'] and it retrieved the file out of the database

[BlueSkyIS]

can we see more of the latest code?

[dennismonsewicz]

$allowedTags='<p><strong><em><u><h1><h2><h3><h4><h5><h6><img>';
				$allowedTags.='<li><ol><ul><br><ins><del>';

			$sContent = strip_tags(stripslashes($row['welcome']),$allowedTags);
       
echo "<div class='editor' style='text-align: center'>";
						echo "<p class='editortitle' style='font-size: 175%; padding: 4px 0px 4px 0px; margin: 0px;'>Welcome Letter</p>
			                	<textarea cols='80' rows='25' name='welcome'>" . $sContent . "</textarea>";
					echo "</div>";

[BlueSkyIS]

where is $row['welcome'] set?

[dennismonsewicz]

$id = $_GET['id'];
			$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM issues WHERE ezine_id = '$id'") or die("ERROR: " . mysql_error()); 	

			$row = mysql_fetch_array($query);

[dennismonsewicz]

bump

[dennismonsewicz]

Funny story... I did a hard refresh and the content loaded into the textarea very wierd