[SOLVED] ' <- ' a weird problem !!

[hassank1]

hii

I am working on a system where users can post topics !

 

so I've remarked that when I use  this expression <-  !! the message is cut !!!

 

ex:

 

"hi

hello <- this is a hello "

 

so the output would be only  :

 

"

hi

hello "

 

any explination ?

 

thx

[DarkWater]

You need help with it, or do you actually have a question?

[hassank1]

what do u mean ??

 

that's my question.. why this is happening ?

 

I am using php .. and what I do is cleaning the html tags and converting nl2br .. then I print it .. but donno y this is happening !

 

if the problem isn't clear I can explain with more details !

 

thx

[kenrbnsn]

The browser is eating the "<" because it thinks it's the start of a tag. Use "<" instead of "<".

 

Ken

[hassank1]

aha ok thx ..

 

Ok so what I should do is simply replacing '<' by '"&lt' ... btw what about '>' should I replace it too ? and with what ?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You need to pass all posted content through htmlentities(), using ENT_QUOTES as the second parameter, when you output it so that all special characters are converted to HTML entities so that they are not rendered by the browser and display exactly as entered.