little html editor with php

[leegold2]

I'm trying to do the following:

Have a textarea in a form, but in the textarea i want to view html source not the html. eg. if there's "&" I want to see "&" and not "&".

What I am trying yo do is make a little html editor in a form's textarea for editing MYSQL fields with PHP. But every time I SELECT a field it shows up as HTML and not html source ( I might have some html in a field along with text).

Thanks

 

[kenrbnsn]

When you display the lines, instead of

echo $str;

use

echo htmlentities($str);

BTW, it would help if you would post your code that doesn't work.

Ken

 

[leegold2]

But what I want is really a text editor inside a form's textarea,

echo '<br><br><h4>Description:</h4><p><textarea name="tp_d" rows="4" cols="72">'.$d_content.'</textarea>';

So I would see html markup and html entities - just like a text editor. I also would want to be able to edit it all just likea text editor - this is done in PHPMyadmin for example...

 

[Vragabond]

Text inserted in textarea will not be parsed. So if you enter <div> it will show <div> instead of a box. Your problem seems to be data you are trying to input into the textarea. Just try this and see what happens.

$strHTML = '<div id="header"><img src="pic.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="bullet" /><strong>Hi!</strong><br /></div>';
echo '<form><textarea>' . $strHTML . '</textarea></form>';

Textarea should show code as is.