Custom Fields text format

Hello,

Sorry, only my second post and I am asking questions rather than helping to answer them (I will redeem myself as I get to grips with this program)

I have a problem with the display of text in a custom field. I am using a Text Area custom field to capture a customers wording details.  The carriage returns that the customer enters are important to the layout but are not retained when the text is subsquently being pulled from the database.

Eg :-

When the customer enters the text :-

Mr & Mrs S Smith
request the pleasure of the company of

......................................
to celebrate the marriage of their daughter
Claire
with
Thomas

it translates to the following truncated text when pulled from the database in the subsequent viewbasket and checkout screens and in the backend after order completion

Mr & Mrs S Smith request the pleasure of the company of ...................................... to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Claire with Thomas 

Does anybody know how to retain these line breaks when the custom field is redisplayed.

Many Thanks

Matt

Hi Matt,

Have them indicate line breaks with "<br>" (without the quotes)

and you should be all good :)

Hi again,

I'll have another look at it a bit later.  What happens is that all formatting and HTML code is removed from the text on the shopping cart summary. 

My guess as to why follows:

1) To prevent exploits.  If all code and formatting weren't removed, an unscrupulous individual could technically throw in a bunch of code in that text field to crash your server or a script that would download the entire contents of your database and then delete it off your server. 

2) To keep the page's appearance from becoming altered.  If the HTML code and formatting were left in, I could add in a tag that says something like

<font style="font-size: 3000px"> and without the corresponding </font> tag to close it out, the rest of your page would be in humungous text.

Technically, the page could be altered to allow certain tags and even force them to close out the tags at the end of the input field, but there's a bit of work involved in that.

You could always put in something like "Unformatted preview text - text will display properly in your confirmation email"

I was a bit engaged today, but I took a quick look and it's not jumping out at me.  I would have figured there'd be a "ClearHTMLTags" command and there's a chance there is somewhere, just not on the viewcart.asp page.

At the beginning of viewcart.asp, it includes a number of files

(<!--#include file="../includes/settings.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/storeconstants.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/emailsettings.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/languages.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/languages_ship.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/bto_language.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/productcartinc.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/currencyformatinc.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/shipFromSettings.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/productcartFolder.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/opendb.asp"-->
<!--#INCLUDE FILE="../includes/stringfunctions.asp"-->
<!--#include file="../includes/adovbs.inc"-->
<!--#include FILE="../includes/ErrorHandler.asp"-->
<!--#include FILE="../includes/pcProductOptionsCode.asp"--> 
<!--#include file="header.asp"-->
<!--#include file="inc_PrdCatTip.asp"-->
<!--#include file="pcCheckPricingCats.asp"-->)

So the command is most likely somewhere in one of those files and can be edited to allow certain html tags.  I keep raising mental red flags though whenever I think about allowing arbitrary code in an input text field though :p

I'm sure I can find the code, but time is a bit of an issue at the moment.  I'll check back in though!