Re: Help Me!

the way i have attacked a similar situation in the past was to create my own formatting system - kind of a pseudo-html set-up, which made use of conventions like; **bold** %%italic%% __underline__ !!titlefont!! etc etc then you can save the article directly into the DB, as a text or whatever, and when you print it out, do something like; echo specialTxtFormat($articleBody); a function which would include a call to nl2br() as well as the replacement of things like **bold** for <b>bold</b> enjoy At 04:13 AM 2/1/01 +0000, Sridhar Ranganathan wrote:

Hi Netlanders I have just undertaken a web site construction project. It is a devshed like site that serves articles on various topics. I am using LAMP - Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP 4. I have a table that contains info about each article. I think I have three options...(or do I have more that I dont know of?!)

        1. Store the article body in the database as a LONGTEXT or BLOB
        2. Separate plain text file
        3. Separate HTML formatted file

No matter whether the file is in the database or as a separate file, should it be formatted? If it is plain text, how do I make distinctions between bold text and normal text? (Will fread() using PHP give me '\n' and other such characters too?) If it is HTML formatted, I would loose some control over the look and I would have to copy and paste the plain text article and make it a HTML file. What should I do? I know I have already asked this question and got some answers. But, when I proceeded with the project, I kept comming back to this one point. A long answer might help. Looking forward to your help. Regards Srinivasan Ranganathan _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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