Creating a Quote feature for my site

[Fishcakes]

Hi

On retrieving data from my database I use the following function to insert HTML line breaks to retain how the comment looks

 $CommentText= nl2br($data['CommentText']);

However I'd look users to to be able to quote using the ">" character (like in reddit - so say they want to 'quote' something from a book or article)

So I'm trying to wrap my head around how to do this. Would I the string for "<br>>" (to find the line break then the additional ">") and then how would I take all of the characters after the ">" to the next "<br>"?

The below function is what I have started with

public function Convert_Quotation($CommentText)
 {  
 
     $FindQuote = substr($CommentText, strpos($CommentText, '<br>>') + 50);
  

return $CommentText  ;
} //function end 

 

[maxxd]

Sounds like you want a Markdown library. I can't say for sure as I think I'm the one person on the planet that's not used Reddit, but `>` denotes a blockquote in most Markdown versions I've come across. If you Google it, there are many PHP libraries that can help you out.