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Text escaping / unescaping help - El Forum - 06-03-2008
[eluser]Sceneshift[/eluser]
I hate myself for asking this question, but I can't seem to find a solution.
I have a text area, I am adding the contents to a database using active record. It's escaping all the apostrophes and adding \n's for line breaks, which is fine. I am happy with that.
How do I then take that data out of the database and display it in a nice manner? I tried using the typography helper, but it obviously doesn't work in conjunction with stripslashes which I need because of the escaped apostrophes.
Sorry for the stupid question!
Text escaping / unescaping help - El Forum - 06-03-2008
[eluser]stuffradio[/eluser]
In the main method call the method string helper:
Code:
$this->load->helper('string');When pulling the data go:
Code:
$this->strip_slashes($text);Text escaping / unescaping help - El Forum - 06-04-2008
[eluser]Sceneshift[/eluser]
Thanks a lot...
I am still getting \n's turning into just"n"'s now, any it seems I can even have one or the other.
Text escaping / unescaping help - El Forum - 06-04-2008
[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
the php way to display multiline texts is
Code:
nl2br(htmlentities($text));Text escaping / unescaping help - El Forum - 06-04-2008
[eluser]stuffradio[/eluser]
Oh yes,
xwero that is the best way to do it. I misread his thread. I too use that function to do this
Text escaping / unescaping help - El Forum - 06-04-2008
[eluser]Sceneshift[/eluser]
Raaaaar this is driving me mad
Entry looks like this in my database:
"line1\n\nline2" it's mysql_real_escape_string'd.
Then using <?=nl2br(htmlentities($text))?> I get:
"line1\n\nline2"
What am I doing wrong? Sorry guys.