Question

I have a textarea, which I need to be able to take characters including / and ‘ as well as special characters in ASCII. It does this fine, and sends the data to a php page by the POST method.

Then I repopulate the text area simply by putting

<?php echo isset($F_Text) ? $F_Text : '' ?>

between the textarea tags ($F_Name = $_POST[“F_Name”]), with the intention that the user can then alter what they typed in and resubmit.

But each time the form is repopulated two issues arise. A forward slash is added before characters such as ‘ and the ASCII characters are printed out as the symbol rather than the code. This basically breaks the rest of the page (the submission goes on to be processed by some javascript).

I can’t think of any way to keep the ASCII codes as just that, codes, not symbols.

Also, I’ve just noticed that all $ signs are lost too, which I can understand, but I need them to stay!

I need the form to display EXACTLY what the user typed in originally. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Can you try with :

<?php echo isset($F_Text) ? htmlentities(stripslashes($F_Text)) : '' ?>

Hope this helps you 🙂