Re: Editing in a text area field

ceo@l-i-e.com wrote:

Rule #1. Never, ever, ever, alter the user's input, EXCEPT for sanitizing/filtering. Specifically, do NOT add <br /> tags in place of newlines. Store the newlines. Upon OUTPUT, you can use nl2br() to get <br /> tags. Or str_replace if you want </p> instead. This is crucial as a habit, down the road, when you later want to put their stuff out as non-HTML such as RSS or PDF or other output mechanisms. Consider their input as sacrosanct (except for dangerous/evil input) How do you suggest dealing with a need to allow italics, bold, underlines, etc?

I see forum web sites that allow the user to enter [b]bold text[/b] for example. I would like to do this. Anyone have a function to convert this kind of thing to HTML? Stephen