Re: html input element rendering html entities

[Troy Oltmanns]

Hey guys and gals,

I have a little tricky situation so I will explain as best as I can.

I've got a form that loads and saves product data to mysql. In some fields
like the heading and subhead we use special characters like Omega,
Registered Trademark, and Ampersand. When putting the data in I will encode
them as Ω, etc. Once saved, all is good, everything goes ok and will
display correctly in  the user interface. However, if I go back to edit that
product, in the html input element, it will actually display the character
rather than the entity code (although when checking the source, the html
entity is coded correctly). Then when it is saved, it saves as the illegal
character and will serve up a few funky characters in the user interface and
in the database.

I have the code stripping out tags and I tried to use the
mysql_real_escape_string to no avail.

Anyone have experience with this kind of thing?
PHP Version 5.1.6*MySQL 5.0.19*