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Subject: Why Are Spaces Breaking the Line in a Text Input Field? (PHP & MYSQL)
Category: Computers > Programming
Asked by: martinluther245-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 03 Aug 2004 15:26 PDT
Expires: 02 Sep 2004 15:26 PDT
Question ID: 383109
The form is located at: http://128.241.191.192/test/approvelistings.php

I'm wondering why my category field isn't working properly. The line
stops immediately upon a space. I've tried htmlentities and urlencode
but that doesn't seem to be the issue. Here's a sample from the php:

while ($newArray = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
   //give a name to the fields
   $category = $newArray['category'];
   $email = $newArray['email'];
   $phone = $newArray['phone'];
   $adtext = $newArray['adtext'];
   $ip = $newArray['ip'];
   $id = $newArray['id'];
   $postdate = $newArray['time'];
   
   $replysubject = rawurlencode("Re: Problem With Your Ad on Ocala4sale.com");
   $replycontent = rawurlencode("\n\n***********************\nHere is
the ad you submitted:\n\n$adtext Phone: $phone  E-mail: $email");

   //echo the results on screen
   
   print "<tr align=left><b>AD:</b> $id   &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<b>IP:</b> <a
href=http://whois.sc/$ip target=_blank>$ip</a> 
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<b>POSTED:</b> $postdate<br>";
   print "<input type=hidden name=id[] value=$id>";
   print "<input type=text size=40 name=category[] value="; 
   echo htmlentities($category);
   print "><br>";
   print "<textarea rows=6 cols=60 name=adtext[]>$adtext</textarea><br>";
   print "<input type=text size=40 name=email[] value=$email>  <a
href=http://google.com/search?q=$email target=_blank>Google</a> |
History <br>";
   print "<input type=text size=40 name=phone[] value=$phone> <a
href=http://google.com/search?q=$phone target=_blank>Google</a>  |
History <br>";
   print "<input type=radio value='yes' name=approved" . $id .">
Approved <input type=radio value='no' name=approved" . $id .">
Declined  <input type=radio value='pending' name=approved" . $id .">  
 Pending  &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp [ <a
href=mailto:$email?subject=$replysubject&body=$replycontent>  Click to
Reply</a> ]<br><br><br></tr>";

   }
   
print "</table><br>";
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Subject: Re: Why Are Spaces Breaking the Line in a Text Input Field? (PHP & MYSQL)
From: mike_sysadmin-ga on 03 Aug 2004 19:08 PDT
 
Hi martinluther245,

The problem you are experiencing is easily resolved by adding single
or double quotes to the text field names and values. You can only
ommit the quotes when the text field properties do not have special
characters, spaces includes.

You could so something like this:
print "<input type=\"text\" size=\"40\" name=\"category[]\" value=\""
. $category . "\">";

Also, you might consider using strip_tags() instead of urlencode or htmlentities. 

- Mike

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