encoding works fine. aut it also converts the xml tags, so doesnt serves my purpuse.

See the problem in detail.

http://www.thescripts. com/forum/thread625260.ht ml

(Please bear this time I m new to this forum. I will maintain the decorum inthe future posts).

Thanks in advance

Prashant

I have an XML which stores the contents of a page, further the XML is to be stored in the database. The content can be html, text with special characters,etc.
I have a form to take the value from the user. If the user gives some special characters to in the txtmatter, I want to encode them, and at the time of fetching I want to decode them.

I have successfully encoded the value of special characters of <txtmatter> with...

Hi All,
I am new to XML. Please help me.
My Problem.
I have an XML which I have created dynamically uing the simpleXML of PHP 5 and I want to store that XML in the MY SQL Database.
The XML is having special characters which are generating the MySQL errors.

I had tried with htmlspecialchar acters, htmlentities to encode the specialcharacte rs but it doesn't server my purpose.

Please help me out....