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
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