AdamW Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I am using a textarea to allow entry of the body of an e-mail message which I am then distibuting to a set of e-mail addresses populated from a database. The problem I am having is that text entered as & is being changed into &. The same thing happens to other special characters I have tried to but I cant seem to make much headway with things like html_entity_decode. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrMarcus Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 post some code, please. sounds like somewhere within your code, you are running htmlentities() against the variables. but, can't say for certain when i can't see the code. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 Thanks }else if($_POST[op] =="add") { $subject = $_POST[subject]; $body = $_POST[Message]; $body .= " $row[0] nb. This e-mail has been sent from an e-mail address which can not receive replies. The $header Group E-Mailer"; $to = $row[1]; $headers = 'From: e-mailer@' . "$mailbox\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) { $display_block = $Masthead."<p>Message successfully sent! </p>"; } else { $display_block = $Masthead."<p>Message delivery failed...</p>"; } } Here is the bit where I extract the message from the $_POST and create the e-mail Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrMarcus Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 is the textarea a RTE (Rich Text Editor / WYSIWYG Editor)? or is a plain old <textarea></textarea>? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 It is a plain old <textarea></textarea> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesta707 Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 try setting the mime type as text/html Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 If I do that I get Test $ £ & The entered text was Test $ £ & Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrMarcus Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 i'm at a loss for what it could be without seeing more of your code. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 OK here is the whole script <?php /* Created on: 11/11/2009 */ require 'OpenDb.php'; require 'Masthead.php'; } if ($_POST[op] != "add") { //haven't seen the form so show it //Build display_block $display_block = $Masthead.=" <form name = \"email\" method=\"post\" action=\"index.php?page=email\"> <div align=center><h1 ALIGN=\"CENTER\">$header Enter Message Details</h1> <table border=0> <tr> <td>To</td> <td>"; // code for email people here $sql = "SELECT Pilot_Name FROM tbl_pilot WHERE `e-mail` <> 'maintenance@$mailbox' AND Active = '1'"; $result = mysql_query($sql, $conn) or die ("Invalid pilot name query"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ $Pilot = $row[Pilot_Name]; $display_block .= "$Pilot <br>"; } $display_block .= "</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Subject</td> <td colspan=2><input type=\"text\" name=\"Subject\" size=\"110\" maxlength=\"256\"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Message</td> <td colspan=2><textarea name=\"Message\" cols=\"83\" rows=\"10\"> </textarea></td> <tr> <td><input type = \"hidden\" name=\"op\" value=\"add\"> </td> </tr> <TR><TH ALIGN=\"right\"> </TH> <td>"; if ($logged['level'] > 1) $display_block .= "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Send Message\"</td>"; else $display_block .= " </td> </table></div> </form></div>"; }else if($_POST[op] =="add") { $subject = $_POST[subject]; $body = $_POST[Message]; if (!is_null($logged['pilotid'])) {$namesql= "SELECT Pilot_Name FROM tbl_pilot WHERE Pilot_id =". $logged['pilotid']; echo $namesql; $result = mysql_query($namesql, $conn) or die ("Invalid pilot name query"); $row = mysql_fetch_row($result); } if (is_null($row[0])) {$row[0]=$admin; } $body .= " $row[0] nb. This e-mail has been sent from an e-mail address which can not receive replies. The $header Group E-Mailer"; $body = stripslashes($body); $sql = "SELECT `e-mail` FROM tbl_pilot WHERE Pilot_Name = '$admin' or Active = '1' and Pilot_Name <> 'Maintenance' "; $result = mysql_query($sql, $conn) or die ("Invalid pilot e-mail name query"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ $to = $row[e-mail]; $headers = 'From: e-mailer@' . "$mailbox\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) { $display_block = $Masthead."<p>Message successfully sent! </p>"; } else { $display_block = $Masthead."<p>Message delivery failed...</p>"; } } } ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" /> <head> <title><?php echo $header; ?> Group e-mail</title> <?php echo $icon; ?> </head> <body lang=EN-GB link=#0000FF vlink=#0000FF style='tab-interval:36.0pt' bgproperties="fixed" <?php echo $background; ?> <?php echo $display_block; ?> </body> </html> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrMarcus Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 one thing i noticed right off-hand is that, you do not appear to close your <body tag (unless there is something in $background, but i cannot see where that has been set). you should really try and validate your website, 'cause as it is, it won't validate. if you echo out $_POST['message'] to the browser (without sending it via email), do you get the same issue? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956589 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 If I echo out the $_POST[Message] I get the same result There is a </body> tag in the html at the botton of the code (mind you I havn't run it through a validator ) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 Got it thanks htmlspecialchars_decode() is the answer! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181328-solved-amp-instead-of/#findComment-956685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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