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Tullie Murrell
Tullie Murrell

Reputation: 47

Tags in form input?

When text with HTML tags inside it are inputted into a web-form (e.g <em>john</em>), how does it appear to the PHP processor?

I did some experiments with the example above and found that the form was sending the query string %3Cem%3Ejohn%3C%2Fem%3E is that how it would appear?

How could i fix this so that it appears as typed: <em>john</em>?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (3)

Krish R
Krish R

Reputation: 22741

A string in which all non-alphanumeric characters except -_. have been replaced with a percent (%) sign followed by two hex digits and spaces encoded as plus (+) signs. It is encoded the same way that the posted data from a WWW form is encoded, that is the same way as in application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type. This differs from the » RFC 3986 encoding (see rawurlencode()) in that for historical reasons, spaces are encoded as plus (+) signs. It is an encoded, To get an typed content, you can use urldecode()

$str  ='<em>john</em>';
echo $Encoded = urlencode ( $str ); //OP %3Cem%3Ejohn%3C%2Fem%3E

echo urldecode ( $Encoded );

Upvotes: 0

R R
R R

Reputation: 2956

"%3Cem%3Ejohn%3C%2Fem%3E"

In the above statement % specifies whitespace.its browser dependent ,some browser replaces whitespace with '%' and some with '+'

if you want to decode than you can do that by php function rawurldecode(); the syntax of which is string rawurldecode ( string $str ).

Now about querystring:

when you are sending your data via GET method,the data which you send is formed into "name=value" form and its goes to the server.

example:

consider you have a form like this

<form method="get" action="a.php">
name:<input type="text" name="name">
</form>

and you insert name as rahul

then the query string will be "name=rahul" ,the value of which you can retreive in the server side using $_GET or $_REQUEST

Upvotes: 1

Kara
Kara

Reputation: 6226

You can use the rawurldecode function to decode the string.

rawurldecode("%3Cem%3Ejohn%3C%2Fem%3E")

Upvotes: 0

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