John, someone did reply to you alread. here.... let me snip from that
email....
oOoOoOoOoOoO Gerard Samuel Said: oOoOoOoOoOoO
check to see if the field where the info is going into is long enough.
ie varchar(50). anything more than 50 get cut off.
> being diplayed on the succeeding web page. I've tried
what did you name the textfield? You should be able to echo "$string";
if you named the textfield string....
oOoOoOoOoOoO End of Gerard's Words oOoOoOoOoOoO
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:29 PM
Subject: [PHP] Is there no one who can help me out there.
> I have a text input field in my form. I need the user
> to be able to enter something like: Hello, I need #
> help. After which they click on a submit button. The
> succeeding page then takes this text and tries to
> display it and tries to store "Hello, I need # help"
> in a varchar field in a mysql table column. The
> mysql database is truncating the # sign and the text
> succeeding the # sign. Also, absolutly no text is
> being diplayed on the succeeding web page. I've tried
> using addslashes() and I was warned against using
> htmlentities(). Also, I'm not sure if I'm dealing
> with 2 issues: A mysql issue and a html issue. Or, am
> I dealing with one issue: A mysql issue or an HTML
> issue.
>
> I know think my problem is that when I pass text to
> another page with the # sign, it's interpreting it as
> a comment. Is their any way to somehow escape the #
> sign.
>
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> John
>
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