I am within inches of completely wrapping up the use of Form Helper to edit a weblog entry.

I have a problem though with email addresses that come in. The @ symbol wreaks havoc, causing code to spill out onto the page. I don’t want to escape it since it is an important piece of information. Is there some way to have the @ symbol and edit too?

Thanks,

Forrest

Unfortunately, that’s the nature of the beast

ExpressionEngine that is.

Those there’s a couple workarounds:

http://www.fckeditor.net/
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

Alas, you can’t win them all I guess. Fortunately, this is not a field that will need to be changed, so maybe I can just have it included as an invisible element and come along for the ride.

Again, thanks for the timely assistance.

Forrest

Forrest, if this is something that is a seperate field (that contains only the email address), and will never be changed, I would NOTinclude it in the form AT ALL
Just cut that line out of the form (this goes for ALL custom fields you aren’t “using”

Of course, you could generate it for appearance just as {custom_field} without using it in a form or anything

Good. This confirms a lingering idea I had on that. I’ll go with that.

Thanks.

Pie Man,

I think this may actually help with a lot of the information as not all of the fields need to be edited. So basically I would use the form helper section only for the fields that might need modification and enter the rest as I would on any other template? For example I tried to show the email field with in the form and it came out with the brackets around it: Email: {user_email}. Is there better syntax for that?

Thanks,

Forrest

Correct! Though only do this with Custom Fields… if you leave something out like Category, Status, etc - it will wipe out the data for them (when submitted)

As for the {user_email}

Nope.... that should work

That’s for sure the correct short_name for the custom field?

Works perfectly. This case is closed. Thanks.