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Posted by mbarbs on 08/22/07 17:45
On Aug 22, 10:35 am, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
> mbarbs wrote:
> > On Aug 22, 9:21 am, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
> >>> The problem is i have this for example <a href="link.html">Link</a> in
> >>> one of the fields in the mysql database. When the page loads it shows
> >>> the html <a href="link.html">Link</a> NOT a clickable link.
> >> The problem is how you store the value to the database, you most likely used
> >> htmlentities() or a simialr function on the string before you stored it, which
> >> makes it to be displayed as it's written and not parsed by the browser as
> >> html-code.
> > How would you recommend the best way to do this?
>
> If you use a form to input the data, you may need to use
> html_entity_decode() to get rid of all htm encoded characters (you don't want
> those)
>
> Before you store data into the database, you want to run addslashes(), this
> prevents problems with " or ' in the strings.
>
> And when you fetched the data from the database, use stripslashes(), before
> you echo things out.
>
> --
>
> //Aho
Thanks Aho. But for right now i'm manually entering the data into
mysql.
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