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oneadvent · 08-14-2010, 04:57 PM

I want to give a box that a business partner can type comments in, and I got that, but now I want to make it where he can go in and change things up.

So i've got a comment box that has something similar to this on the backend:

Code:

Thank you for your interest in our SOMETHING&trade;  product. This tool allows us to understand your feelings about the words that people are saying. <br />
<br />

And that works fine, but when I pull it out and put it into a textarea box it shows the actual tm, so when he hits save, it puts it in the database as ™ so when i pull it back out I get a square box. Then if he edits it again it puts � in the database.

So is there anyway to alleviate that?

oneadvent · 08-14-2010, 06:35 PM

Figured out a better way to do it, I used a str_replace

Code:

$str = str_replace('PRODUCT', 'PRODUCT&trade;', $comments);
echo $str;

So now i'll just tell my partner not to worry about the tm symbol, i've got that covered.

Thanks for anyone that was going to help!

jimhill · 08-15-2010, 01:10 PM

Thanks, I was trying to resolve this as I have been using user updated content similar to that but hadn't run into the Trademark issue.