Re: Storing, formatting and displaying data

Octavian, If you wish to avoid WYSIWYG editors and stick with some thing ASCI-based, I can highly recommend Textile [1], which is distributed as part of a new PHP-based CMS called Textpattern [2]. Textile is a sort-of shorthand mark-up for converting ASCI to valid XHTML. This is a paragraph with a line break, *strong* and _emphasised_ text. * this is * an unordered * list # this is # an ordered # list |tables|are|easy|too| |tables|are|easy|too| "Links":http://example.com are easy too! There's a demo and lots more sample text on the Textism site [1], and you can get a copy of Textile in the (GPL) source of Textpattern. [1] http://textism.com/tools/textile/ [2] http://textpattern.com/ Justin French On 20/08/2004, at 3:14 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ---

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