HTML through forms

[eleven0]

I got a form which inserts data into my database.I submit HTML with that form. Then I output that data on my site. When I use "<" ">", it will save those characters as "<"  and ">". When i go to Phpmyadmin and re-type the code as "<" ">" it works on my site. Any ideas?

[drisate]

The vars are cleaned to prevent attacks. If you would like to display the stuff back to html use this

 

if (!function_exists("htmlspecialchars_decode")) {

function htmlspecialchars_decode($string, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT) {

return strtr($string, array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS, $quote_style)));

}

}

 

then decode your var ex:

echo htmlspecialchars_decode($my_html);

[eleven0]

Thanks, that worked.

[drisate]

No problem ;-)

[eleven0]

Is it possible to pass PHP through this?

[drisate]

no that only works to rebuild html out of strings passed into htmlentities()

 

this
<b>bold</b>
would get back to
<b>bold</b>

 

using the function i gave you.