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By: PHP newbee U.S.A.  Date: 25/09/2003 00:00:00  English  Points: 300 Status: Answered
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I am having trouble with a form I have created. I use the following line of code:

<td><textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="10" wrap=physical><? echo $message; ?></textarea></td> </tr>

To send a large message to a mysql database (approximately 600 letters). when I extract it from the database Iuse this code to display the results:

<td><font size="2"><b>Message:</b>
<? echo $guest['guest_message']; ?></font></td>

For some reason, the message is not wrapping and making my form look bad. I have tried with wrap=physical, virtual, off, on, hard, soft, everything you can imagine. Why wont this display properly?

Thanks...
By: Michael701 Date: 25/09/2003 04:00:00 English  Type : Comment
why not use a <textarea> to display the results, you can always use the 'readonly' attribute to prevent changes on the displayed page.
By: VGR Date: 25/09/2003 04:33:00 English  Type : Comment
1) your message may contain HTML codes... Try to print htmlspecialchars($guest['guest_message']); ...
2) beware of magic_quoting.

so I suggest to try :

<td><font size="2"><b>Message:</b>
<? echo htmlspecialchars($guest['guest_message']); ?></font></td>
By: Zvonko Date: 25/09/2003 17:09:00 English  Type : Comment
Add a cell width for the display:

<td width="150"><font size="2"><b>Message:</b>
<? echo $guest['guest_message']; ?></font></td>
By: VGR Date: 25/09/2003 17:30:00 English  Type : Comment
use the textarea, it works just fine
By: Zvonko Date: 25/09/2003 17:35:00 English  Type : Comment
Ok, a width of 150 is not simmelar to cols=50.
Better use 400 px.
Like this:

<td width="400"><font size="2"><b>Message:</b>
<? echo $guest['guest_message']; ?></font></td>
By: PHP newbee Date: 25/09/2003 18:12:00 English  Type : Comment
These are all great solution but none of them worked. I am attaching the full code here. Thanks....

Form to add the entry:

<form method="post" action="add_entry.php">
<table>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Your Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" SIZE="50" maxlength="50" value="<? echo $name; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Your Email:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" SIZE="50" maxlength="50" value="<? echo $email; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Subject:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="subject" SIZE="50" maxlength="50" value="<? echo $email; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Enter Message:</td>
<td><textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="10" wrap="Physical"><? echo $message; ?></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" value="Add Entry"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>


Code to output the results:

while ($guest = mysql_fetch_array($guests)) {
?>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#CC3300" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td>
<table width="640" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="640" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"><tr>
<td bgcolor="#CC3300"><font size="3" color="#ffffff"><b><? echo $guest['guest_subject']; ?>
posted by <? echo $guest['guest_name']; ?></b> </font></td>
</tr></table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table width="640" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5">
<tr>
<td><font size="2"><b>Email:</b> <A HREF="mailto:<? echo $guest['guest_email'];?>"><? echo $guest['guest_email'];?></a></font>

<?php
//*****************************************************************
//* Format timestamp on the record in "MM/DD/YY HH:MM xm" format
//*****************************************************************
$timestamp = $guest['guest_time'];
$year = substr($timestamp,0,4);
$mon = substr($timestamp,4,2);
$day = substr($timestamp,6,2);
$hour = substr($timestamp,8,2);
$min = substr($timestamp,10,2);
$sec = substr($timestamp,12,2);
$formatted_date = date(" m/d/y g:i a",mktime($hour,$min,$sec,$mon,$day,$year));?>
<font size="2"><b>Date:</b> <? echo $formatted_date; ?></font>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font size="2"><? echo nl2br($guest['guest_message']); ?></font></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>



<?php } ?>
By: Zvonko Date: 25/09/2003 18:19:00 English  Type : Comment
This line does not have a cell width:

<td><font size="2"><? echo nl2br($guest['guest_message']); ?></font></td>


Change it to:

<td width="400"><font size="2"><? echo nl2br($guest['guest_message']); ?></font></td>
By: PHP newbee Date: 25/09/2003 18:35:00 English  Type : Comment
I have tried this already and did not work. This is the output I get from this fix:

<td width="640"><font size="2">Trying to eliminate any wrapping problems that would make this guestbook look bad. **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************8</font></td>
By: VGR Date: 25/09/2003 18:52:00 English  Type : Answer
wrapping can't happen if you've no spaces between words, even with "hard"
By: Zvonko Date: 25/09/2003 18:57:00 English  Type : Comment

So far I have only this:

<TD Width=640 style="word-break: break-all;"><font size="2">Trying to eliminate any wrapping problems that would make this guestbook look bad.
**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************8</font></td></tr>
By: PHP newbee Date: 25/09/2003 19:17:00 English  Type : Comment
I am a dork... didn't realize this about word wrap. Sorry to be racking all of yer brains!
By: VGR Date: 25/09/2003 19:17:00 English  Type : Comment
not mine :D

huh huh huh

such things happen

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