Putting HTML in a form on a PHP page to submit to a mySQL db

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Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Ok, here's the thingy. I used to be able to insert HTML tables and such into my form so that it would insert it into my database and eventually get pulled onto my templates. Now I can't. I can submit the brackets <> by themselves without space between them without a problem, but if a character or space is separates them, I get an Internal Server Error.

Could this be some software variable on my server that is causing this? I'm thinking that this error started when I moved from my virtual account onto a dedicated server. Perhaps something on the php.ini?

Help.........................

When you are processing the form data to insert it into your database use:
htmlentities($_POST['form_field'], ENT_QUOTES);
When you are pulling the data out of the database to insert into your templates use:
html_entity_decode($query->field, ENT_QUOTES); // assuming you are using mysql_fetch_object() to retrieve your query data.