maintain text format from textfield??

[Anon]

Hi,
I have a form where users can enter news in the textfield which will be shown on a seperate page. The problem now is that I dont wish the user to be using any HTML and still be able to keep the format as used in the text field... is it possible?

Also, my previous question is still unanswered 🙁

Could someone advise me how to get the first sentence from a blob in Mysql?

for example. I entered an essay in a blob called $essay. Now , I need a summary intro for the essay which is likely before the first querstion mark or period.

how do i get $summary that takes only the first sentence out of $essay?

this is how i did:
$summary[] = split ('[.?]', $row[articletext]);

then print $summary[0]

but im only getting 'ARRAY'

[Anon]

news:

if all you want is to keep the line breaks and tabs, try this for size:

$news = ereg_replace ("\n", "<BR>", $news);
$news = ereg_replace ("\t", "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;", $news);

selecting:
I would suggest you use mySQLs select to your advantage. This way you wont have to fetch the entire essay.

SELECT LEFT(text, INSTR('.',text));

this will get text, but until the first occurence of "."

You could be having problems with your split command:
this is how i did:
$summary[] = split ('[.?]', $row[articletext]);

This wont work for me, unless I write $row['articletext'] (ie. with "'"s). If it DOES work anyway, then try position 1 😉

BTW, if you are making an essay site, mail me.

jens