Remove those brackets "<" and ">". Or print htmlentities($email_address); Thanks Richard On 1/24/06, Duffy, Scott E <scott-duffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Viewing in browser? If so view source. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Angelo Zanetti [mailto:angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:01 AM > To: PHP List > Subject: (SCL: 5) query problem. > > Hi guys. > > I got an entry in a field called emailfrom in my table (MySQL db). > > The data in that field is: Sams Bank <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I then do the following to retrieve the info, using a DB class > > $recordset=$conn->Execute("SELECT * FROM wiml_history WHERE id = > $task_id"); > $row=$recordset->GetArray(); > > $emailfrom=$row[0]['emailfrom']; > > then I echo what I get out and I just get Sams Bank > > It doesnt bring back the whole entry in that field, > however when I manually change the info in the field in the DB to: > > Sams Bank sam@xxxxxxxxxx, it retrieves it correctly. > > Why does the < > cause that not to be displayed? or is it retrieving it > correctly but not showing it because of the < > (which might be > conflicting with HTML tags? > > thanks in advance > > > -- > >
