[PHP] text into web db interface

2001-10-31 Thread AAustin 

Hi

Is there a php technique, app, code example..., where users can enter normal
formatted text with paragraphs etc and the 'br' or 'p ' tags (and even
'table') are entered so the text looks ok on an php page. This will then
mean the end user does not need to know a smattering of html code just to
enter some text into db.

thanks
andrew



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Re: [PHP] text into web db interface

2001-10-31 Thread David Robley 

On Thu,  1 Nov 2001 14:51, AAustin wrote:
 Hi

 Is there a php technique, app, code example..., where users can enter
 normal formatted text with paragraphs etc and the 'br' or 'p ' tags
 (and even 'table') are entered so the text looks ok on an php page.
 This will then mean the end user does not need to know a smattering of
 html code just to enter some text into db.

 thanks
 andrew

There is the nl2br() function which will convert end of line characters 
to a BR.

For tables, you might have to build something based on say tabs as cell 
separators, EOL as row separators, but you would also need some 
indication of where table starts and ends.

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