Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 05/05/05 17:11

David Christensen wrote:
> Actually, I forgot to also mention that the browser is changing the
> control-M (^M) from the query when it sets the default value for the
> textarea to "<br />". I guess that is the HTML representation of the
> ^M.

you are using nl2br() on the input, that funcion adds '<br />' before
all newline characters.

>
> I'm currently using:
>
> $_POST[$field] = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $_POST[$field]);
> $_POST[$field] = strip_tags($_POST[$field], '<br />');
>
> in a foreach loop for all the $_POST vars, but it's still not removing
> it.
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 10:12 +0200, Marek Kilimajer wrote:
>
>>David Christensen wrote:
>>
>>>I know I'm missing something, but I can't seem to find it or figure it
>>>out. I've done the google search, and I've done a quick scan of the
>>>list archives, but I can't seem to find the right way to remove
>>>control-M from a form submission page with textarea fields.
>>>
>>>I have a series of "textarea" fields that can/and do contain the dreaded
>>>^M characters. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to remove
>>>them before I save them to the database, and how to remove the ones that
>>>are all ready stored there when I query them back to the browser from a
>>>web page. Also, if I do remove them, how do I make sure I format the
>>>text correctly when I push it back to the browser as the default values
>>>of these fields?
>>>
>>>Point me to the elixir of knowledge and let me bath in the fortitude of
>>>a master regex expression to rid me once and for all of the dreaded
>>>^M!!!
>>>
>>>Thank you, and good night!
>>
>>... = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", ...);
>>
>>But I don't see how this would infuence the default values of form
>>inputs, plain htmlspecialchars() should be enough.
>>
>
>

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