RE: [PHP-DB] Formatting a form box

What? Nobody said "This has nothing to do with PHP and databases?" Sheesh... someone must be sleeping. :) Ok, so it sorta does relate.. But yeah... no2br() will do it for you. Textarea input types DO send a newline and/or carriage return (didn't test and might be system specific), so if you just take your form $_POST data and use nl2br() before you store it in the database (or probably after... should be able to store a newline/carriage return in the database) it should produce the results you desire. test.php: <form action="test.php" method="post"> <textarea name="testarea"> </textarea> <input type="submit"> </form> <?php if (isset($_POST['testarea'])) { echo nl2br($_POST['testarea']); } ?> Look at the source code after you submit if you have any doubts/questions. -TG = = = Original message = = = use the nl2br() function to convert the newlines to <br> bastien >From: Alex Major <alex.major@allydm.co.uk> >To: <php-db@lists.php.net> >Subject: [PHP-DB] Formatting a form box >Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:33:01 +0000 > >Hi there, >On one of my forms, there is a section where users can put images etc..and >then it is displayed on my php pages. My question is how do I make it so >that the html formatting is automatically done. For example when someone is >typing something, and wants to start a new paragraph although they press >return when typing when the data is displayed from the MySQL database on a >website it's just continuous text. For it to start a new paragraph they >have >to put <p> in when they are typing in this box. They do not know all the >html formatting codes, and so I need someway of making so that it is easy >for them to have formatted text without doing all the html. >Also things like changing colours, bold, italic and things would be good. >Something like on forums, where when you enter a new post you have all the >formatting options. > >Hope this makes sense, >Regards, >Alex. ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.