OK so I have a lil problem storing html code in a textfile.
This is the form used to get the $page and $newtext variables.

<form action="edtext.php" method="get">
<b>Page:</b><input type="text" name="page"><br>
<b>Text:</b><textarea name="newtext">Add content here</textarea><br>
<input type="submit" value="send">
</form>

Now within the edtext.php file, the $page is for the textfile you want to add the $newtext to.

This is all good it works quite fine, but a problem exists when a lot of code is entered. IE the $page and $newtext data is transferred as so:
edtext.php?page=home;newtext=%3C%21--+Nav+Table+--%3E%0D%0A%3Ctable+border%3D%5C%5C%5C%220%5C%5C%5C% 22+cellPadd etc etc etc.

So not all text within the $newtext textarea in the form is sent to the php script.
And the text that is sent is further edited IE it would convert this text:
<table border="0"> to this text:
<table border=\"0\"> etc

So how can I send large amounts of (unedited) text to a php script from a form in a html doc?
Pls help thanx

Use POST (instead of GET) method in your form?

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ok I tried the 'post' method and the data is sent neater. But there are still two problems that are battling me:

Firstly the text that is sent throught the form is limited. Is there a way I can assign the amount of characters sent, maybe in the <textarea> field of the form? I donno.
Secondly the html text that is sent is being edited to work with php and I have no idea why. Surely the data should be sent as is I donno why this is happening. IE: <table border="0"> (entered in the textarea) would be edited to <table border=\"0\"> why is this?
peace

This has to do with your php.ini setting for magic_quotes_gpc. If it's set to TRUE/ON/1, then all ' (single-quote), " (double quote), \ (backslash) and NUL's (in user-inputted data off GET/POST/COOKIE) are escaped with a backslash automatically.

If you need to display these 'values' on a web page, then simply pass the data through stripslashes e.g.


About limiting the characters submitted via a textarea, I don't know how to do this but I think it's impossible. However, you can do this client-side (i.e. with JavaScript) or server-side with e.g. PHP's substr() function.

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I see. So can I save the html retrieved from the form as follows?


Will that work now?
Peace

Yes, that should work (considering your 'write' script works well).... I am sure you've tested it already.

You have a choice whether to pass the data via htmlentities before you store the data in a textfile or just before you display the data - you know that, right?

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Hmmm...isn't this what I have done in my previous post? The html text is stored in a string variable called $newtext, from a textarea. Then in the script, if $newtext is defined, then strip it back down using htmlentities and then store it in the textfile.

I am still having problems with limited characters being sent from the textarea. Pls tell me more about PHP's substr() function and how i can use it?

An example string off $_POST['newtext'] could be;
<b>This is in "bold"</b>.
right?

With htmlentities( stripslashes($_POST['newtext']), ENT_QUOTES ), that string is converted to:
&lt;b&gt;This is in &quot;bold&quot;&lt;/b&gt;.

About substr(), let's assume you only want to allow a user to submit up to 255 characters via $_POST['newtext'], your form-processing script can then ensure that it so simply by adding this line inside the script, before doing anything else:

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