htmlentities and textarea

[MDanz]

i'm having a problem.  i display some text in a textarea.

 

e.g. $variable = car1>>car2.

 

$variable2= htmlentities($variable);

 

in the textarea it displays $variable2 as

 

car1>>car2

 

how do i solve this.  In the textarea it should display as

 

car1>>car2.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

in the textarea it displays $variable2 as car1>>car2

No it doesn't. The only way it will do what you state is if the data has htmlentities() applied twice.

[MDanz]

this is my code, here's what i tried to resolve it...

 

$sumz= "car1>>car2";

$textsearch = array('<','>');
$textreplace = array ('<','>');
$textareatext = "$sumz";


			echo "<div style='display:none;' id='$number'>".str_replace($textsearch,$textreplace,htmlentities($textareatext))."</div>";

 

In the textarea it displays this

 

car1 >>car2

[PFMaBiSmAd]

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