Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] BBCode

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 6 Apr 2004, at 05:08, Don Seiler wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:04:27AM +0100, Shaun Murray wrote:
>> I noticed it in a form where you filled in your email address. eg. a
>> contact page. The user entered in an address which was getting saved 
>> in
>> the database as a mailto: link. Not terribly useful if you actually
>> wanted the email address for processing later but easily avoided by 
>> not
>> using parseOutput.
>
> I don't think you want to be using parseOutput() to prefill form fields
> anyway.  It's my opinion that parseOutput() is used for displaying of
> that entered data.  In a form edit field you'd want to see the raw data
> unparsed.
>

Yep. Almost certainly true else you get weird things like html entities 
turning back into their characters so the reason you put them in in the 
first place gets lost.


> Where are you seeing this?  One of my mods?
>

Nah, it was in the mailto mod announced on the phpwebsite site a few 
days ago that I noticed it but thought I'd mention it just in case 
other people came across it in their modules.


Shaun
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