[GRLUG] PHP & <textarea>

[Nathan Phillip Brink]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:33:26PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Nathan Phillip Brink wrote:
> 
> > I think that's because <textarea/>s are akin to <pre/>s. Your template
> > has a newline, three spaces, a newline, and another space in addition
> > to the data produced by the <?php ?> snippet.
> >
> Bingo - thanks!

You're welcome!

> > Another note, you're forgetting to escape the data you're pulling from
> > the database. The template should probably look like:
> >
> > <div class="formLabel">Teams</div><div class="formElement">
> >  <textarea rows="2" cols="30" name="event_title" id="event_title_game"><?php echo htmlentities(empty($event_title) ? "H: \n    A: \n" : $event_title); ?></textarea>
> > </div>
> >
> Also excellent, .. one of these days I'm going to have to make a meeting!

I've yet to make a meeting myself ;-).

-- 
binki

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