mosgetparam strips html tags

vcetinick · 16.02.2005, 10:00

Hi all,

Im trying to save the html content of a textarea field from a webpage and the default behaviour is of mosgetparam is to strip the html tag definitions. The idea is that a person can write up a webpage then copy and paste the html code into the page which then saves the html content to disk where it can be used later to display on another section of the website. But if you enter say

<p>This is stuff</p>

into the textarea, and submit the form

mosgetparam will read

This is stuff

only and not the tags.

I've read somewhere that they have changed the default behaviour of the mosgetparam function to disallow html tags in the content, but is there any way I can force it not to, or go arround it so i can read in the tags.

Cheers
VC

keithorama · 17.02.2005, 01:22

hey,

I was caught by this recently. mosGetParam stripping tags is somewhat surprising behavior. to turn it off you need to pass an extra flag.

Code:

$value = mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, $key, $default, _MOS_ALLOWHTML);

it is worth looking at the mosGetParam code in includes/mambo.php to see how it works. another interesting fact is that it does not touch subarrays of REQUEST, POST, etc. so when you are retrieving a param that is an array, you need to run mosGetParam to extract its values, in order to be consistent.

Code:

// get the first value of options[]
$array = mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, "options" )
$option0 = mosGetParam( $array, 0)

hope this helps,
keith