ckeditor messing up the code when saving

Question

I'm building a editable website for some people, I'm using ckeditor to let them be able to use WYSIWYG online, but when I'm using a post method to save the data, the code get messed up...

This is how I use ckeditor to save the tabs and all of my editable website:

<html>
<head>
<title>CKEditor Sample</title>
<script src="ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="login/updateText.php" method="post">
    <p>
  File being modified: <textarea name="name" id="name">about.php</textarea>
        <textarea name="editor1" id="editor1">
      <?php echo file_get_contents('about.php');?>
    </textarea>
        <script>
            CKEDITOR.replace( 'editor1' );
        </script>
    </p>
    <p>
        <input type="submit">
    </p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

but after editing this:

<div class="menuslct">
<table border="0" style="text-align:center; width:980px">
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td><a href="/en/aboutus"><img src="/common/img/icons/aboutus.png" style="height:80px; width:80px" /></a></td>
        <td><a href="/en/aboutus/ourteam"><img src="/common/img/icons/12 our team.jpg" style="height:78px; width:78px" /></a></td>
        <td><a href="/en/aboutus/howtohelp"><img src="/common/img/icons/11 help.jpg" style="height:78px; width:78px" /></a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>About Us</td>
        <td>Our Team</td>
        <td>How to help</td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>

the saved html code looks like this:

<div class="\&quot;menuslct\&quot;">
<table border="\&quot;0\&quot;" style="\&quot;height:80px">
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td>About Us</td>
        <td>Our Team</td>
        <td>How to help</td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>

<p><a href="\"><img src="\" style="\&quot;height:78px" /></a><a href="\">  <img src="\" style="\&quot;height:78px" /></a></p>

and here is updateText.php:

<?php

$filename = $_POST['name'];
$str = $_POST['editor1'];
$fh = fopen($filename, "w");
fwrite($fh, $str);
fclose($fh);

header("Location: modify.php"); 

?>

So I have no idea as to what I'm messing up...

please show how you're saving the html (updateText.php)

bitWorking
– bitWorking

2013-11-12 14:15:50 +00:00
Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 14:15 — bitWorking
– bitWorking, Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 14:15
edited to add updateText.php (sorry I forgot :P )

Lou
– Lou

2013-11-12 14:19:33 +00:00
Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 14:19 — Lou
– Lou, Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 14:19
turn off magic quotes..

bitWorking
– bitWorking

2013-11-12 14:31:27 +00:00
Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 14:31 — bitWorking
– bitWorking, Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 14:31

Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-20 22:45:59Z

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It looks like magic quotes messes up your $_POST vars.

Disable it in your php.ini file:

; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = Off

Disabling Magic Quotes

edited Nov 20, 2023 at 22:45

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answered Nov 12, 2013 at 14:37

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3 Comments

Lou Over a year ago

I putted the line you gave me at the end of the /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file but it's still the same...

Lou Over a year ago

So this solved it!!

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {     function stripslashes_gpc(&$value)     {         $value = stripslashes($value);     }     array_walk_recursive($_GET, 'stripslashes_gpc');     array_walk_recursive($_POST, 'stripslashes_gpc');     array_walk_recursive($_COOKIE, 'stripslashes_gpc');     array_walk_recursive($_REQUEST, 'stripslashes_gpc');     }

bitWorking Over a year ago

ok fine..but if you had restarted the server after editing the php.ini it should have worked..

Hermann Stephane Ntsamo · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-12 14:07:04Z

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If you want to add HTML code with CKEditor you must first make sure that you have pressed the "Source" button first otherwise it is going to encode the inputs and you will get the issue above.

answered Nov 12, 2013 at 14:07

Hermann Stephane Ntsamo

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Lou Over a year ago

wether I press source before hiting the post button or not it has the exact same result...

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