Dealing with formatted text...

[Anon]

Hello all,

Here's what I want to do: I've got a web form, where users type in the text of long reviews. I want to be able to keep paragraph data when the text is stuffed into the mysql database. Right now, when a user types in the info, it's turned into a huge long one paragraph text. Puting <br><br> between paragraphs of course works, but that's too deep for my users :-)

Thanks!!!

Paul

[frymaster]

what you need to do is do a strstr by "\n" and then stick each line into an array. This should work but it isn't tested.
do
{
$line = strstr($lotsotest, "\n");
if($line == "")
break;
$return[$i] = substr($lotsotext, 0, (strlen($lotsotext) - strlen($line)));
$lotsotext = substr($line, 1, strlen($line));
}while(1);

give it a try and tell me how it works

-frymaster

[kparker]

One simple solution is to save the text as is, and then run it through nl2br() before displaying it.

[frymaster]

one of the things i like/hate about php is that all my clever algorithms are invariably just substitutes for a single command i never learned....