Question

Im dealing with a bit of a problem. I have a WYSIWYG editor saving its data to a column in my database. Unfortunately the data is being stripped from the tags, so it looks something similiar to this:

 'Hello<br><br>'

Although theres no problem initiliazing this data into the WYSIWYG editor once again, but when i e-mail the data it recognizes the tags as text rather than HTML.

This is how i send:

$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->initialize($config);
...
$this->email->send();

When the email is received it is as if the client ignores the HTML tags.

The content-type in the email which is received

Content-Type:   multipart/alternative; boundary=B_ALT_507c2c67f1aa7

Answer 1

Before sending, run the body part of the email through html_entity_decode()

$body = html_entity_decode($body);

It will replace entities like &lt &gt with their applicable characters like < >.