How to save and retrieve HTML in its original form

[rajbal]

Hi,

  When i am saving the below shown html to a text file using php write function, the text file is not the same as the html source.

 

Character "&nbsp" changes to "Â" and "&gt" converts to ">".How can i save the below shown html as it is to the text file.

 

Html source to be saved

====================

<div class="secondaryLink bottomMarg2" id="crumbtrail">

<a href="http://www.dev.com/?pageid=searchcomposer&pageregion=header">Home</a>

 > Search

</div>

<h1>Composer Search Results For: John</h1>

 

 

Regards,

Raj

[Caesar]

<?php

  $str = '<div class="class">';
  $html = htmlspecialchars($str);

  echo $html;

?>

[rajbal]

Hi Ceaser,

            What you have sent works if you put the text in the script itself as variable.

 

But in my case i am submitting a form where it has a content:

Html source to be saved

====================

<div class="secondaryLink bottomMarg2" id="crumbtrail">

Home

 > Search

</div>

<h1>Composer Search Results For: John</h1>

====================================

 

This content on the process page becomes

 

Html source to be saved

====================

<div class="secondaryLink bottomMarg2" id="crumbtrail">

Home

> Search

</div>

<h1>Composer Search Results For: John</h1>

 

 

But i want the same text what i have submitted..

 

Regards,

Raj

[Caesar]

<?php

  $str = '<div class="class"> > ';
  $html = htmlentities($str);

  echo $html;

?>

[Caesar]

Tested by submitting via a form:

 

<?php

   if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

      $str = $_POST['mydata'];
      $html = htmlentities($str);

      echo $html; //Outputs '<div class="class"> > '
   }

echo'
<form method="post" action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'">
   <table>
     <tr><td><input type="text" name="mydata"></td></tr>
 <tr><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"></td></tr>
   </table>
</form>';

?> 

[rajbal]

You are right it works the way your code is shown.Lemme explain how is my code structure.Here i have a cgi script where teh particular text(<div class="class"> > ) is a hidden input value and i am using method=post for submitting to a process.php script .And in this script while retrieving the submitted value i am not getting the same values which i submitted.Can you guess with this much information where i am doing mistake??

 

Regards,

Raj

[Caesar]

In process.php, do some debugging to see how the data looks before it is inserted into the document.

 

<?php

  print_r($inputxt);exit;

?>

[rajbal]

Home  > Search

Composer Search Results For: John

 

This is the result i get...

[Caesar]

Right. So you know the variable name/field it is posting from....and you can view the result. Now, can you show the code in process.php where you're inserting into a file?

[rajbal]

Data received at the process.php is getting changed .Thats why i am getting this issue.I need to get it in the same form as i submitted...

[rajbal]

<?php

      print_r($_POST['skip']);

      $skipline = htmlentities($_POST['skip']);

        echo $skipline;

        $myFile = "TestLink.rtf";

        $myFilesize= filesize($myFile);

        if ($myFilesize > 0)

        {

        $fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");

        $skipline=str_replace(array("%26","%27","More >"),array("&","'","More >"),$skipline);

        fwrite($fh, $skipline);

        fwrite($fh, "\n===\n");

        fclose($fh);

 

        }else {

        $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");

fwrite($fh, $skipline);

        fwrite($fh, "\n===\n");

        fclose($fh);

 

        }

 

?>

 

This is the code..       

 

 

[rajbal]

Hi Caesar,

Curious if got any success???or do i have to encode the values before submitting the form?If that is the case how i can encode if its a cgi script and shell on it...