Strange problem with saving url in textarea

Hi, few weeks ago I have build my custom admin panel for WordPress everything works fine except one textarea that doesn’t. This textarea is suppose to store users shortcodes which they can display on the home page, for example I input something like this:

[nivo width="935" height="435" effect="random" pauseTime="1000"]
 [image url="wwwhttp://localhost:8888//incorporated/wp-content/themes/incorporated/images/slider/02.jpg" /] 
[image url="http://localhost:8888//incorporated/wp-content/themes/incorporated/images/slider/03.jpg" /] 
[image url="http://localhost:8888//incorporated/wp-content/themes/incorporated/images/slider/04.jpg" /]
 [image url="http://localhost:8888//incorporated/wp-content/themes/incorporated/images/slider/01.jpg" /]
[/nivo]

The shortcode saves, displays correctly on the home page, but it doesn’t output correctly back in the textarea, instead of seeing the above shortcode it clears out the urls, example:

[nivo width="935" height="435" effect="random" pauseTime="1000"] 
[image url="" /] 
[image url="" /]
[image url="" /]
[image url="" /]
[/nivo]

If I try to save just the url without any shortcode it is the same story, it is saved to database I can echo it but it doesn’t display in the textarea ;O Any clue what is going on? For me it has to be magic…

I think you are somehow escaping special characters in your code. Check if the textbox field is wrapped with any escape function. Or better post the code snippet.

I use the ‘Option Framework’ by Devin Price and ran into a similar problem in the past.

For my situation I discovered that the text area was being sanitized with wp_kses and stripping out all HTML including links:

function of_sanitize_textarea($input) {
    global $allowedposttags;
    $output = wp_kses( $input, $allowedposttags);
    return $output;
}

Is your framework doing something similar by chance?

JamiGibbs said
I use the ‘Option Framework’ by Devin Price and ran into a similar problem in the past.

For my situation I discovered that the text area was being sanitized with wp_kses and stripping out all HTML including links:

function of_sanitize_textarea($input) {
    global $allowedposttags;
    $output = wp_kses( $input, $allowedposttags);
    return $output;
}

Is your framework doing something similar by chance?

Yeah I have build mine on top of option framework, but I already commented the wp_kses but it didn’t help I will search maybe there is more then one…

Try changing the ‘of_sanitize_textarea’ function to this (inside /admin/options-sanitize.php):

function of_sanitize_textarea($input) {
    global $allowedtags;
    $output = wp_filter_post_kses( $input, $allowedtags);
    return $output;
}

And here’s the Github discussion about Devin’s santization choices in his framework.

JamiGibbs said
Try changing the ‘of_sanitize_textarea’ function to this (inside /admin/options-sanitize.php):

function of_sanitize_textarea($input) {
    global $allowedtags;
    $output = wp_filter_post_kses( $input, $allowedtags);
    return $output;
}

And here’s the Github discussion about Devin’s santization choices in his framework.

I don’t use this function ;P I had to remove it because I don’t have it anywhere…

any other idea?

stripslashes?

I have really no clue, I am not validating right now the data in any way, when I do print_t right before assigning it to textarea everything looks ok but in the textarea the links are missing ;/

mpc said
I have really no clue, I am not validating right now the data in any way, when I do print_t right before assigning it to textarea everything looks ok but in the textarea the links are missing ;/

Do you print the output between the textarea tags or you’re setting the value attribute like for the text fields?

Parker