Re: Storing, formatting and displaying data

Use WISIWYG editor, integrate it into your forms and presto, for example, from www.interactivetools.com, that does not work with tables, but you can find one, I think. -- Tadas Talaikis info@xongoo.com http://www.xongoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@fcc.ro> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 8:14 AM Subject: [PHP] Storing, formatting and displaying data > Hi all, > > I would like to create a program that allow users to insert text into a > database, than that text to appear in a web page formatted as HTML. > It is simple to replace the end of line with <br />\n in order to format > that text as html, but I don't know how I could let the users to create > bulleted lists, tables, etc. > > Lets say that the users are admins that I can trust, but they don't know > HTML at all, however, they want to insert a table, or a list, etc. > > Are there any solutions for this? > I am thinking to something like inserting > <table> > COL1##COL2##COL3 > CEL1##CEL2##CEL3 > </table> > > ...for the tables, or something like that, then to make the program > transform this in a true table. > > But maybe there are better solutions. > > Thanks for any ideas. > > Teddy