Question

I have the following html code:

<div class=" modal" id="indexModal">
    <span class="thing"></span>
    <a href="#" class="closeMe" title="Inchide">&#238;nchide</a>
    <h2 class="title">Promo&#355;ia lunii februarie!</h2>
    <div>
        <h3>Beneficia&#355;i de promo&#355;ia sezonului.</h3>
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        <a href="http://www.domain.com/solarii/10/solarii-profesionale-latimi-6m-sau-8m" class="orangeButton">vede&#355;i oferta special&#259;!</a>
    </div>
</div>

and I want to insert it into database but it doesn’t saves the full content. I tried using htmlentities() on insert, and html_entity_decode() when I want to display the html. But all I get is this:

<div class=" modal" id="indexModal">
    <span class="thing"></span>
    <a href="#" class="closeMe" title="Inchide">închide</a>
    <

Can you explain me, how to safely insert some html in database without problems and how to display that html afterwards on a page? My table is utf8_general_ci charset.

Answer 1

You need to change your database structure to accept more characters. Example: Set your column type to varchar 250 (or however many characters you need) *it does have a maximum number of characters though.