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fieldmedics · 06-08-2009, 09:00 PM

I operate an EMS Job Website and had someone build a database for me. When posting a job to our website;

http://www.fieldmedicsjobs.com/forms/postjob.htm

In the text area to describe the job I guess the employers are just cut and pasting from another document. I get all kinds of crazy symbols when its posted to the site; example

A dispatcher’s responsibility

and

• Experience in ambulance dispatching.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Experience with customer service.

I am assuming they were suposeed to be bullets but not sure, as for the first example I have no idea what caused it.

I am not very good with PHP yet so what I have come up with so far is just to disable the HTML in the text area

I have found this code <textarea onchange="this.disabled = true"></textarea>

But it does not seem to work. Where ever I put it it knocks out my drop down menu for my States in the form.

Can anyone help me or tell me what I should do or what I am doing wrong?

06-08-2009, 09:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
fieldmedics Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3	PHP Code question I operate an EMS Job Website and had someone build a database for me. When posting a job to our website; http://www.fieldmedicsjobs.com/forms/postjob.htm In the text area to describe the job I guess the employers are just cut and pasting from another document. I get all kinds of crazy symbols when its posted to the site; example A dispatcher’s responsibility and • Experience in ambulance dispatching. • Knowledge of medical terminology. • Experience with customer service. I am assuming they were suposeed to be bullets but not sure, as for the first example I have no idea what caused it. I am not very good with PHP yet so what I have come up with so far is just to disable the HTML in the text area I have found this code <textarea onchange="this.disabled = true"></textarea> But it does not seem to work. Where ever I put it it knocks out my drop down menu for my States in the form. Can anyone help me or tell me what I should do or what I am doing wrong?