Showing html in a textarea form?

[Hughesy1986]

Hi,

 

I am making a news system with just using file functions. Now what i want to do is get the files contents and show them in a text area but not as code as how it looks on the page. Is this possible?

 

Thanks

 

Glen

[Orio]

I dont think so. But this has nothing to do with php anyways.

 

Orio.

[richardw]

Take a look at Tiny MCE

 

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

 

I use it frequently in forms to show formtted text in a textarea.

 

"TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. "

 

 

[Hughesy1986]

Thanks alot ill check it out!

 

Glen

[marcus]

Well other than what richardw said you could easily do a SQL query to select data from your table and just echo it out into a textarea.

 

$sql = "SELECT * FROM `profile` WHERE `id` ='$id'";
$res = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
echo "<textarea rows=30 cols=30>$row[profile_text]</textarea>\n";

 

just a quick simple example if you're using a database

[Orio]

@mgalforever- That's exactly what he doesn't want...

 

get the files contents and show them in a text area but not as code as how it looks on the page.

 

 

Orio.