Passing a textarea string to the POST superglobal array

[ElectricShaka]

I am trying to take a string in text area and POST it so that I can put it into another text area on a different page and then later add it to a MySQL database.

 

This is the code above my text area to start the form:

<form action='AddNewTheme.php' method='POST'>\n"; ?>
    <center><textarea name="themeCode" cols=50 rows=10 class="bginput" onClick="this.focus();this.select()">

 

My problem is that the text in the text area is pretty complicated, usually something like:

<style type="text/css">
    body {background-color:; background-image:url(); background-position:Top Left; background-attachment:fixed; background-repeat:no-repeat;}
    Table, Td { background-color:transparent; border-style:none; }
    table table td { width:100%; }
    table table table table td { width:auto; }

    table table table 
{
background-color:; background-image:url(); background-position:Top Center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border-color:; border-style:solid; border-width:; padding:4px; filter:alpha(opacity=99.9999999999999999); -moz-opacity:0.99.9999999999999999; opacity:0.99.9999999999999999; -khtml-opacity:0.99.9999999999999999;
}
    table table table table{ background-image:none; background-color:transparent; border-style:none; }
    
    .orangetext15, .lightbluetext8, .whitetext12, .nametext, .btext, .redtext, .redbtext {color:; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal; font-family:,arial,verdana,sans-serif;} body, div, p, strong, td, .text, .blacktext10, .blacktext12, a.searchlinkSmall, a.searchlinkSmall:link, a.searchlinkSmall:visited { color:; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal; font-family:,arial,verdana,sans-serif;}
    a, a:link, a:visited, a.navbar, a.navbar:link, a.navbar:visited, a.man, a.man:link, a.man:visited {color:; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal; font-family:,arial,verdana,sans-serif;}
    a:hover, a:active, a.navbar:hover, a.navbar:active, a.man:hover, a.man:active, a.searchlinkSmall:hover, a.searchlinkSmall:active {color:; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal; font-family:,arial,verdana,sans-serif;}
    </style><br>



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The above shows up correctly in my first text area. But then when I put the string into a new text area on the next page like this:

echo "Theme Code: <textarea onClick='this.focus();this.select()' rows='20' cols='70' name='themeCode'>$_POST[themeCode]</textarea> \n";

 

it ends up putting a \ before every " looking like this:

<style type=\"text/css\">
    body {background-color:; background-image:url(); background-position:Top Left; background-attachment:fixed; background-repeat:no-repeat;}
    Table, Td { background-color:transparent; border-style:none; }
    table table td { width:100%; }
    table table table table td { width:auto; }

    table table table 
{
background-color:; background-image:url(); background-position:Top Center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border-color:; border-style:solid; border-width:; padding:4px; filter:alpha(opacity=99.9999999999999999); -moz-opacity:0.99.9999999999999999; opacity:0.99.9999999999999999; -khtml-opacity:0.99.9999999999999999;
}
    table table table table{ background-image:none; background-color:transparent; border-style:none; }
    
    .orangetext15, .lightbluetext8, .whitetext12, .nametext, .btext, .redtext, .redbtext {color:; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal; font-family:,arial,verdana,sans-serif;} body, div, p, strong, td, .text, .blacktext10, .blacktext12, a.searchlinkSmall, a.searchlinkSmall:link, a.searchlinkSmall:visited { color:; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal; font-family:,arial,verdana,sans-serif;}
    a, a:link, a:visited, a.navbar, a.navbar:link, a.navbar:visited, a.man, a.man:link, a.man:visited {color:; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal; font-family:,arial,verdana,sans-serif;}
    a:hover, a:active, a.navbar:hover, a.navbar:active, a.man:hover, a.man:active, a.searchlinkSmall:hover, a.searchlinkSmall:active {color:; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal; font-family:,arial,verdana,sans-serif;}
    </style><br>



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If anyone could help me with this I'd greatly appreciate it.

[kenrbnsn]

Using the function stripslashes() will remove the backslashes from the string. The function nl2br() will make the string display correctly again in the next textarea.

 

Ken

[ElectricShaka]

The stripslashes() worked well for me thank you very much for your time and speed! You guys here at php freaks are really awesome about helping new people out. Thanks again.