Re: Web Tables and php forms

If you want to do this the hard way (for you) then you can create a form which asks for the number of rows/columns and pops up another form with a table and rows x columns input boxes - then you can build the table code and maybe even insert it in the original code via JavaScript (assuming that the whole tables module would be a popup from the main text editing page). You may want to take a look at nl2br() and htmlspecialchars() so they don't mess up your tables. htmlspecialchars() would obviously inhibit bold and italics rendering. Be warned though that this will never end - they'll need table editing next, then they'll want to be able to delete rows/columns, insert rows/columns, merge cells, split cells, set background colors, styles and whatnot... ;-) HTH Bogdan mikeyb wrote:

I am completely stuck, and I am preying that someone will be able to help me. I have set up a php web form that allows one of my users to write columns for my site. This works great, I do a search and replace to replace /n with <br> because they don't know much about html. I have managed to get them into the habit of using bold, italics and underline tags, but now a few of them want to add tables and I have no idea how I can make this easy for them. Has anyone got any idea how I could allow them to do this, or perhaps know of a system that could be of some benefit, keeping in mind their minimal html expertise? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Peace