value="#htmlEditFormat(left(string, 20))#" -Justin Scott, Lead Developer Sceiron Internet Services, Inc. http://www.sceiron.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:49 AM Subject: RE: RE: FW: RE: Quotation Hell > Cheers, I thought I might be doing it wrong, but what about using the Left() > function on your output, I don't see a way around this? > > Ade > > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 June 2002 11:40 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: RE: FW: RE: Quotation Hell > > > > I have a form which the user gets to fill in, they put into a <input > > type="text"... > > A quote: "To be or not to be" > > > > now in my insert statement I have... > > INSERT INTO sometable (somecol) > > VALUES ('#htmlEditFormat(form.field)#') > > > > which translates to.. > > INSERT INTO sometable (somecol) > > VALUES ('A quote: "To be or not to be"') > > > > this isn't what you see in the debugging on the page, but it is what gets > > put into the DB, view the source to see. > > Why would you encode the string as it goes into the database? CF will take > care of escaping any single quotes for you, so you shouldn't have to encode > the string to avoid errors here. The only place htmlEditFormat() should be > used in this setup would be on the form where they enter the string to begin > with (as part of the value="", assuming you wrap around the form if there is > an error), or the same way on an editing page, etc.. > > Yes, your point that it makes the string longer is valid, but it shouldn't > be an issue if you use it as it was intended. > > -Justin Scott, Lead Developer > Sceiron Internet Services, Inc. > http://www.sceiron.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
