PHP - Hiding Br Tags In Textarea (flatfile-editinplace Cms)

I have the pre tags stored in the database like in the following example:

<pre> ... </pre>

I am looking to avoid having the code rendered, when querying it into a textarea.   Any suggestions?

The pre tags:
 

<pre></pre>

get saved in the database like in the above shown example. Though, when reopening them within a textarea they stop working.

For example:
 

<pre><h1>The Headline</h1></pre>

becomes:

The Headline

within the textarea.   The Questions:
What happens here?

How to solve it?
Edited by glassfish, 03 October 2014 - 09:42 AM.

Well, I had this working perfectly until they stopped using a mysql database and started using a flatfile.
What it should do:
Grab data from the flatfile, trim the unwanted parts and set it in an array.
With the received data display as an image.
I am very confused about how I would do this.

My current code:
signature.php:
Code: [Select]
<?php

//GET AND TRIM
$fileName="accounts.txt";
$fileHandle = fopen($fileName,"r");
$filecontents = fread($fileHandle,filesize($fileName));

$exploded = explode(" ",$filecontents);
$name="";
$balance="";
$accounts=array();
$num=0;
for($i=0;$i<count($exploded);$i++)
{

$line = explode("\t",$exploded[$i]);
for($a=0;$a<count($line);$a++)
{

if(trim($line[$a])=="player")
{
}elseif($line[$a]=="money")
{
}elseif($line[$a]=="type")
{
}elseif(trim($line[$a])=="{")
{
}else
{
$subline = explode("\r",$line[$a]);
for($e=0;$e<count($subline);$e++)
{
if(trim($subline[$e])=="}")
{
}
elseif(is_numeric(trim($subline[$e])))
{
$balance=trim($subline[$e]);
}
else
{
$name=trim($subline[$e]);
}
if($name!=""&&$balance!="")
{
$temp=array($name=>$balance);
$accounts[$num]=$temp;
$num++;
$name="";
$balance="";
}
}
}

}


}

//Image Generation
require_once('../func.inc.php');
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); 
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false); 
header("Pragma: no-cache");
$font = "minecraft.ttf";
$user="";
if(isset($_GET['u']))
{
if(!empty($_GET['u']))
{
$user = $_GET['u'];
}
}

if(isset($_GET['i']))
{
if(!empty($_GET['i']))
{
$img = $_GET['i'];
}
else{$img='1';}
}
else{$img='1';}

if(isset($_POST['u'],$_POST['i']))
{
if(!empty($_POST['u']))
{
$user=$_POST['u'];
}
if(!empty($_POST['i']))
{
$img = $_POST['i'];
}
}

if(in_array($user, $accounts))
{
//Info Grabs
$money = get_balance($user);
//End Info Grabs
}
else
{
die("That is an invalid player.");
}

//Display Image

$user = ucfirst($user);

$image = imagecreatefrompng("images/".$img.".png");
$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255,255,255);

if ($_GET['i'] >= '8')
{

ImageTTFText ($image, "8", 0, 100, 13, $color, $font,"Name:");
ImageTTFText ($image, "8", 0, 138, 13, $color, $font,$user);

ImageTTFText ($image, "8", 0, 240, 13, $color,$font,"Money:");
ImageTTFText ($image, "8", 0, 285, 13, $color,$font,"$".$money);
}

else
{
ImageTTFText ($image, "7", 0, 246, 10, $color, $font,"Spartan Universe");
ImageTTFText ($image, "12", 0, 130, 50, $color, $font,"Name:");
ImageTTFText ($image, "12", 0, 130, 96, $color,$font,"Money:");
ImageTTFText ($image, "12", 0, 185, 50, $color, $font,$user);
ImageTTFText ($image, "12", 0, 198, 96, $color,$font,"$".$money);
}

//End Image Display

header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);

?>
accounts.txt:
Code: [Select]
arkangel011 {
type player
money 23.47
}
chemicalbacon {
type player
money 203.89
}


func.inc.php
Code: [Select]
<?php

function get_players()
{
$con = mysql_connect("host","user","pass");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("minecraft",$con);
$query = "SELECT * FROM `lb-players` ORDER BY  `lb-players`.`playername` ASC ";
$res = mysql_query($query,$con);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res))
{
echo "<option value='".$row['playername']."'>".$row['playername']."</option>";
}

}
function is_valid_player($user)
{
$con = mysql_connect("host","user","pass");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("minecraft",$con);
$query = "SELECT COUNT(playername) AS count FROM `lb-players` WHERE `playername` = '".$user."'";
$res = mysql_query($query,$con);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
if($row['count']==1)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}

}

function get_balance($name)
{
$con = mysql_connect("host","user","pass");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

mysql_select_db("iconomy",$con);

$query = "SELECT * FROM `iconomy` WHERE `iconomy`.`username` = '".$name."'";
$res = mysql_query($query,$con);
$row=mysql_fetch_array($res);
//echo $row['balance'];

mysql_close($con);
return $row['balance'];
}
function update_economy()
{
$con = mysql_connect("host","user","pass");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

mysql_select_db("iconomy",$con);


$fileName="accounts.txt";
$fileHandle = fopen($fileName,"r");
$filecontents = fread($fileHandle,filesize($fileName));

$exploded = explode(" ",$filecontents);
$name="";
$balance="";
$accounts=array();
$num=0;
for($i=0;$i<count($exploded);$i++)
{

$line = explode("\t",$exploded[$i]);
for($a=0;$a<count($line);$a++)
{

if(trim($line[$a])=="player")
{
//unset($line[$a]);
}elseif($line[$a]=="money")
{
//unset($line[$a]);
}
elseif($line[$a]=="type")
{
//unset($line[$a]);
}
elseif(trim($line[$a])=="{")
{
//unset($line[$a]);
}
else
{
//echo $line[$a]."<br>";
$subline = explode("\r",$line[$a]);
for($e=0;$e<count($subline);$e++)
{
//echo $subline[$e]."<br>";
if(trim($subline[$e])=="}")
{
//unset($subline[$e]);
}
elseif(is_numeric(trim($subline[$e])))
{
//echo $subline[$e]."<br>";
$balance=trim($subline[$e]);
}
else
{
//echo $subline[$e]."<br>";
$name=trim($subline[$e]);
}
if($name!=""&&$balance!="")
{
$temp=array($name=>$balance);
$accounts[$num]=$temp;
$num++;
$name="";
$balance="";
}
}
}

}


}

foreach($accounts as $account=>$balance)
{
foreach($balance as $name=>$dollar)
{
$query = "UPDATE  `iconomy`.`iconomy` SET  `balance` =  '".$dollar."' WHERE  `iconomy`.`username` ='".$name."'";
mysql_query($query,$con);
//echo "Name: ".$name;
//echo ": Balance: ".number_format($dollar,2);
//echo "<br>";
}
}
}

?>

I have a form that generates html code, and displays it in a textarea with submit button.

I want to submit button to take the data entered in that textarea1 on page 1, and upload to textarea2 on page 2
How can I do this? I have no idea where to start.

hi everyone,

did not know what to make the subject, but here is what I want to do:

I have a string, which gets returned to me from a linux app on my server, it looks something like this:
Code: [Select]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<TITLE> </TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.2  (Linux)">
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Administrator">
<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20110106;14170000">
<META NAME="CHANGEDBY" CONTENT="HOD">
<META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20110522;16540000">
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
@page { margin: 0.26in }
P { margin-bottom: 0.15in; direction: ltr; color: #000000; line-height: 0.15in; text-align: justify; widows: 2; orphans: 2 }
P.western { font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; so-language: en-US }
P.cjk { font-family: "Batang", "바탕", serif; font-size: 10pt }
P.ctl { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; so-language: ar-SA }
A:link { color: #0000ff }
-->
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY LANG="en-US" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" DIR="LTR" STYLE="border: 5.05pt double #000000; padding: 0.67in 0.92in">

<P>I want this and the tags around it, just not the html, head, body and their closing tags.</P>

</BODY>
</HTML>

within the body, the tags are each styled for example: <p style="color: red"></p> so I cannot just get rid of all html, I want to get only all the content within the body tags, but without the body tags obviously
strip_tags does not work as i need, I only want to strip certain tags.

If someone can help me with this i will much appreciate it.