twilitegxa Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 I'm having some trouble with displaying my white space between words. I have a table that holds records for resumes, and the administrator can access each record and edit them. I have the record displayed in text boxes for editing, but the white space between words is not showing up. Only the first word will show up. I have tried changing the field type in the table to text or blob instead of varchar, and I have tried using the nl2br function when displaying the records, but that isn't working either. What am I doing wrong? Here is my edit page: <?php $applicant = "SELECT * FROM applicants WHERE id = '$_GET[id]'"; $applicant_res = mysql_query($applicant, $conn) or die(mysql_error()); $display_block = "<h3>Edit Entry</h3> <p>To edit the entry, change any relevant information below:</p> <form method=post action=update_U3IP.php><table>"; while ($applicants_list = mysql_fetch_array($applicant_res)){ $id = $applicants_list['id']; $firstname = $applicants_list['firstname']; $lastname = $applicants_list['lastname']; $address = $applicants_list['address']; $city = $applicants_list['city']; $state = $applicants_list['state']; $zip = $applicants_list['zip']; $phone = $applicants_list['phone']; $position = nl2br($applicants_list['position']); $file = $applicants_list['resume']; $display_block .= " <table> <tr> <td><label for=id><b>ID:</b></label></td> <td><input name=id type=text size=2 id=id value=$id /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for=firstname><b>First Name:</b></label></td> <td><input name=firstname type=text size=20 id=firstname value=$firstname /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for=lastname><b>Last Name:</b></label></td> <td><input name=lastname type=text size=20 id=lastname value=$lastname /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for=address><b>Address:</b></label></td> <td><input name=address type=text size=20 id=address value=$address /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for=city><b>City:</b></label></td> <td><input name=city type=text size=20 id=city value=$city /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for=state><b>State:</b></label></td> <td><input name=state type=text size=20 id=state value=$state /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for=zip><b>Zip:</b></label></td> <td><input name=zip type=text size=20 id=zip value=$zip /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for=phone><b>Phone:</b></label></td> <td><input name=phone type=text size=20 id=phone value=$phone /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for=position><b>Position:</b></label></td> <td><input name=position type=text size=20 id=position value=$position /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Uploaded Resume:</b></td> <td><input type=text name=file id=file value=$file /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2 align=center> <input type=hidden name=hidden_id id=hidden_id value=$id /> <input type=submit value=Submit /> <a href=admin_U3IP.php><input type=button name=back id=back value=Back /></a></td> </tr>"; } $display_block .= "</table></form>"; ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>KulaE_WDP4451_U3IP</title> </head> <body> <?php echo $display_block; ?> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 The problem could be a couple of different places. Youshould validate the actual content in the database and the content in the HTML page. Just because you can't "see" the text in the web page doesn't mean it is not there. Check the HTML page source to see if the content is there. The problem might be with the content being interpreted as HTML code. If that is the case you will need to use something like htmlentities() to convert the HTML code characters to their character code equivalents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twilitegxa Posted September 7, 2010 Author Share Posted September 7, 2010 I checked the source of the page and the additional text was showing up, like you said. How would I used htmlentities()? I tried doing it like this: $position = htmlentities($applicants_list['position']); But it didn't work. What did I do wrong? I should this when I view the source: <tr> <td><label for=position><b>Position:</b></label></td> <td><input name=position type=text size=20 id=position value=Technical Support /></td> </tr> The word "Support" is in red, even with htmlentities() being used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twilitegxa Posted September 7, 2010 Author Share Posted September 7, 2010 Nevermind, I guess since I was using php, I needed to use the escape character and double quotes and now it's working. Sorry for not thinking of this sooner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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