On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:11 -0600, John Tamm-Buckle wrote:
> Hi, new to this list...
>
> I'm adapting some code that generates text and want to keep the syntax. In
> the original version the output was iterated from an array in <pre> tags.
> That was fine for what it was, but it's now a word press plugin and the
> <pre> tags get in the way. How do I keep the sentence structure without
> using <pre>s? Also, I'm quite new to PHP in general... :) Any help would
> be much appreciated!
>
> Below is an extract of the code with some highlighting for emphasis:
>
> function wpm_display_generator() {
>
> if (isset($_POST['submit_button'])) {
>
> // the form was submitted to this script - generate
> // and display
> require_once 'lib/generator.php';
> require_once "lib/util.php";
> require_once "lib/vocabulary.php";
> require_once "lib/widgets.php";
>
> $vocab = Vocabulary::getInstance();
> $cats = $vocab->getCategories();
> $catName = '';
> $sentence = '';
> if (isset($_POST['category_choice'])) {
> $catName = $cats[$_POST['category_choice']];
> $gen = new wordGenerator($_POST['category_choice'],
> $_POST['length_choice']);
> $lines = $gen->generate();
> foreach ($lines as $line) {
> $sentence .= "<pre>" . $line . "</pre>";
> }
> }
>
> require 'sentence.php';
> }
> else {
> require 'generator_form.php';
> }
> }
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> John
>
<pre> tags don't do anything to mark up a sentence. If you need to
convert the hard returns to a <br/> tag, then use nl2br()
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
