[SOLVED] Fields

[EagleAmerican]

For some reason, the edit field gets messed up when editing if there is HTML in the data. How can I fix this and also how can I make the fields for parasitedescription and parasiteremoval bigger to like 3 lines in height?

 

<fieldset><legend>Parasite Edit</legend>
   <form method="post" action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
   <br />
   <br />
   <br />
   <table width="200" border="1">
     <tr>
       <td><input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $data['id']; ?>" />
         Parasitename:</td>
       <td><input type="text" name="parasitename2" value="<?php echo $data['parasitename']; ?>" /></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td>Parasitefrom:</td>
       <td><input type="text" name="parasitefrom2" value="<?php echo $data['parasitefrom']; ?>" /></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td>Parasitegenre:</td>
       <td><input type="text" name="parasitegenre2" value="<?php echo $data['parasitegenre']; ?>" /></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td>Parasitedescription:</td>
       <td><input type="text" name="parasitedescription2" cols="3" value="<?php echo $data['parasitedescription']; ?>" /></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td>Parasiteremoval:</td>
       <td><input type="text" name="parasiteremoval2" cols="3" value="<?php echo $data['parasiteremoval']; ?>" /></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td> </td>
       <td><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="parasiteedit" /></td>
     </tr>
   </table>
   <br />
   <br />
   </form>
</fieldset>

 

Screenshot also attached.

 

Thanks so much,

Adam

 

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[EagleAmerican]

*Bump*

 

Please this is really important and really is appreciated! 

 

Thanks,

Adam

[nuttycoder]

to make input fields bigger you should use textareas rather then input so then you can specify how many rows you want will change the height.

 

example

<textarea name="parasitedescription" cols="30" rows="3"></textarea>

 

to remove harmful html use htmlspecialchars

 

htmlspecialchars — Convert special characters to HTML entities

 

this would turn script into <script> for example

 

$parasitedescription = htmlspecialchars($parasitedescription);

 

Hope this helps.

[EagleAmerican]

Thank you so much for your response. Will the htmlspecialschars convert it back? Because the view.php file that I am using needs to parse the HTML for the download links, etc.

 

Thanks,

Adam

[nuttycoder]

no I belive its one way conversion.

 

How does your edit section get messed up with html?

[EagleAmerican]

Take a look at the screenshot from my original post. This might fix it.. let me give it a shot.

 

Thanks again,

Adam

[EagleAmerican]

Thanks so much! It worked. It just overflowed the imput and needed a textarea.. thanks! 

 

Thanks,

Adam