URL links breaking up on update

Hi, I have HTML editor working great, and it updates an existing record reasonably well apart from the fact that any links that are present from previous inserts/updates are breaking even though they worked after the initial insert.

What's happening is that the url's and the target info are getting two lots of double quotes appear around them when ever the record is called into the update page. These double quotes are then being written into the DB and as a consequence, are breaking any previously working links.

The following is happening:

www.website.com changes to ""http://www.website.com""

target="_blank" changes to ""target="_blank"""

Why is this happening?

The only way around it is to edit every link within the record to ensure the quotes are manually deleted, and my client has told me that's annoying him and the site has only been live for a few days!

Please help, thanks.

I had this problem (a few times). From the advice I got, what worked for me was this:

Find the following code in your xxxxxxx_Update.php page for your HTMLEditor content update. It will look something like:

<?php
// WebAssist iRite: Rich Text Editor for Dreamweaver
$WARichTextEditor_1 = CreateRichTextEditor ("nl_content", "HTMLEditor/", "100%", "400px", "Custom", "../custom/newsletter_Update_nl_content1.js", "".(str_replace('"', '&quot;', $row_WADAnewsletter['nl_content']))  ."");
?>

Using your own equivalent recordset and row names, change:

"".(str_replace('"', '"', $row_WADAnewsletter['nl_content']))  ."");

to:

"".$row_WADAnewsletter['nl_content']  ."");

Once the image paths have been corrected once, updates should work properly, and the image links should remain intact.

That'll do pig! ;o)

Thanks neilo, that worked a treat. Very much appreciated.

Mat

Actually, if this is a long standing problem, why hasn't it been updated?

I did have HTML Editor, however, I have had to remove it in order to install CSS Form Builder of which I have the latest version installed, which was released around mid 2010.

Is it possible to get an update please? That would prevent me from constantly having to amend the code produced.

Thanks

Mat

This happens on adding html editor to an update page created using DataAssist.

When adding HTML Editor to an update page, you will need to go to the initial value section and reselect the corresponding recordset column to remove the formatting.

Yes, it was a data assist page.

Could you explain what you mean by 'remove the formatting' please? Do you mean un-bind it from the recordset column that data assist bound it to?

Thanks.

in HTML Editor, click on the lightning bolt next to Initial Value and reselect the coresponding recordset column.

Oh OK, it's as simple as that. I've done all the amends to code by hand now, but I'll give it a go in a few weeks when I have to use it again.

Thanks both anyway.

Mat

you're welcome.