[PHP-DB] Formatting a form box

2006-01-12 Thread Alex Major
Hi there, On one of my forms, there is a section where users can put images etc..and then it is displayed on my php pages. My question is how do I make it so that the html formatting is automatically done. For example when someone is typing something, and wants to start a new paragraph although

RE: [PHP-DB] Formatting a form box

2006-01-12 Thread Bastien Koert
use the nl2br() function to convert the newlines to br bastien From: Alex Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Formatting a form box Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:33:01 + Hi there, On one of my forms, there is a section where users can put images etc..and then

RE: [PHP-DB] Formatting a form box

2006-01-12 Thread Miguel Guirao
One approach is to ask the user to input a text delimiter, like a @, for example, in every point where there should be a new line or paragraph. Then, you should parse the text, and at every point you find a @, tu place a BR or P or any other HTML tag that best suits your need!! This is just one

RE: [PHP-DB] Formatting a form box

2006-01-12 Thread tg-php
What? Nobody said This has nothing to do with PHP and databases? Sheesh... someone must be sleeping. :) Ok, so it sorta does relate.. But yeah... no2br() will do it for you. Textarea input types DO send a newline and/or carriage return (didn't test and might be system specific), so if you

Re: [PHP-DB] Formatting a form box

2006-01-12 Thread El Bekko
Miguel Guirao wrote: One approach is to ask the user to input a text delimiter, like a @, for example, in every point where there should be a new line or paragraph. Then, you should parse the text, and at every point you find a @, tu place a BR or P or any other HTML tag that best suits your

Re: [PHP-DB] Formatting a form box

2006-01-12 Thread Alex Major
Thanks for the suggestions, the nl2br has been a common suggestion and think that I have found more of what the problem is. (And it is kinda php specific cause its php pages). Basically its not displaying it correctly on the page, the text in the database is now being stored correctly (with lines

[PHP-DB] Table sorting problem

2006-01-12 Thread Charles River
I am a novice in both PHP and MySQL, otherwise I would be able to do this myself. :-) A non-profit I assist has a table (http://www.lbc4cc.org/04-05board.php) that is displayed by a simple PHP script. That was fine last year, but now we have some new officers and some new board members and I

RE: [PHP-DB] Table sorting problem

2006-01-12 Thread Bastien Koert
are the officers id'ed by some column? if so then add ORDER by COLUMN_NAME bastien From: Charles River [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Table sorting problem Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:51:29 -0500 I am a novice in both PHP and MySQL,

Re: [PHP-DB] Table sorting problem

2006-01-12 Thread Miles Thompson
At 05:51 PM 1/12/2006, Charles River wrote: I am a novice in both PHP and MySQL, otherwise I would be able to do this myself. :-) A non-profit I assist has a table (http://www.lbc4cc.org/04-05board.php) that is displayed by a simple PHP script. That was fine last year, but now we have some

Re: [PHP-DB] Table sorting problem

2006-01-12 Thread Gerry Danen
On 1/12/06, Miles Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd cheat and add a numeric field, let's call it num_rank, ranking the offices in the order you want them displayed, e.g. President 10 Vice-President 20 . . . Board Member50 Board Member50