irkevin Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Hi, I'm running in some sort of problem. I have a database which have some html tags like <br />, <p> and so on. The problem is, when i output the data in a html textarea, the html code is being shown up too. Obviously, if a client want to update something and doesn't have a clue of what HTML is, he will go crazy So what is the best way to hide html tags into a textarea? Help me plz. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127046-hiding-html-tags-in-textarea-when-data-coming-from-mysql-database/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvinodkumar Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 read this http://in2.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127046-hiding-html-tags-in-textarea-when-data-coming-from-mysql-database/#findComment-657196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
genericnumber1 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 There are sooo many answers to this question... if you want things like font styles, etc to stay, you'll have to look into implementing some kind of a flash or javascript text styler, or you'll need to implement some kind of bbcode. If you simply want to strip the tags and then change new line characters to line breaks for the input, there's a simple answer: nl2br() and strip_tags()... but I doubt that's what you want to do. If you don't want your client to see html tags you need to figure out how to remove the tags from the database without compromising style, or figure out how to make formatting more user friendly so your client can handle using it. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127046-hiding-html-tags-in-textarea-when-data-coming-from-mysql-database/#findComment-657197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
irkevin Posted October 4, 2008 Author Share Posted October 4, 2008 i did use nl2br() in a project to hide <br> tags.. but can this be use to hide pther html tags? How do i proceed with this? Thanks for your time Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127046-hiding-html-tags-in-textarea-when-data-coming-from-mysql-database/#findComment-657201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 for what you're trying to do you'll need to use a WYSIWYG editor. For such editors look into TinyMCE and/or FCKEditor Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127046-hiding-html-tags-in-textarea-when-data-coming-from-mysql-database/#findComment-657202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvinodkumar Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 read this http://in2.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127046-hiding-html-tags-in-textarea-when-data-coming-from-mysql-database/#findComment-657205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 read this http://in2.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php The way I see it the OP wants to keep the tags in but not allow a user to edit them. As they may not know how to edit HTML. This is the job of an WYSIWYG editor as I suggested. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127046-hiding-html-tags-in-textarea-when-data-coming-from-mysql-database/#findComment-657207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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