Full HTML Form textbox Editor - Formatted for PHP

[alexville]

Hello,

 

I was wondering if there is a such thing that lets users input text into a html form input box, but when they start a new line or something, it inputs "<p>" when is outputed to php. So that the text that they inputed will look exactly the same on a php's output. Its sort of like this forum's way of inputting text.

[taith]

tinymce is the best ;-)

[alexville]

Alright, I'll try it out

[kidintraffic]

Kind of on the same topic...

 

Is there a way to display text exactly as the user entered it in a form after it has been saved to the database.  I'm having a problem now that if you enter a few paragraphs of info into a form field, then display the data onto another page from the database, the paragraphs are all together with no lines in between each paragraph.  If I enter a break tag after a paragraph or put paragraph tags around each paragraph, the info is diplayed correctly. 

[Psycho]

You need to process the input from the user and replace line breaks with BR tags. You can do this before saving to the database or do it when you display the databse results to the page.

 

The other option is to display using PRE so that the text is displayed exactly as it was enetered. But, you lose some functionality related to display - I find it mostly useful for displaying code to a page.

[alexville]

You need to process the input from the user and replace line breaks with BR tags. You can do this before saving to the database or do it when you display the databse results to the page.

 

The other option is to display using PRE so that the text is displayed exactly as it was enetered. But, you lose some functionality related to display - I find it mostly useful for displaying code to a page.

 

What would you use to process the BR tags?

[bgoulette612]

You need to process the input from the user and replace line breaks with BR tags. You can do this before saving to the database or do it when you display the databse results to the page.

 

The other option is to display using PRE so that the text is displayed exactly as it was enetered. But, you lose some functionality related to display - I find it mostly useful for displaying code to a page.

 

What would you use to process the BR tags?

 

There's always nl2br (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php).

 

I usually take the arguably unnecessary step of running everything though a series of regular expressions, for example:

 

$sOutput = preg_replace('/\\n/', '<br />', $sInput);

 

The above is basically a waste of time since it's functionally what nl2br does (as far as I'm aware). Sometimes, I'll do this instead:

 

$sOutput = preg_replace('/\\n\\n/si', '<\p><p>', $sInput); // Do this first to capture any double newlines.
$sOutput = preg_replace('/\\n/si', '<br />', $sInput); // Assume single newlines are meant to be breaks, not paragraphs.
$sOutput = "<p>".$sOutput."</p>";

 

I haven't tested any of the above, but I'm pretty sure that'll work...Might be overkill. Anyway, that's my two cents.

 

Oh yeah: if you wanted to make sure multiple newlines were treated as just a new paragraph, you could change the above code to this:

 

...
$sOutput = preg_replace('/\\n(\\n+)+/si', '</p><p>', $sInput); // Do this first to capture any multiple (more than one) newlines.
...

[The Little Guy]

just use nl2br() when the text is outputted, exaple:

 

echo nl2br($row['users_text']);