Text Formatting

[earthlingzed]

I want to add text formatting features much like what is offered on this forum where users can embolden text, change font colors and add lists without having to know any HTML (audience for my project are not technically minded) . Also, if they add any paragraph spacing, that should be rendered correctly and loist when stored in a database. I am sure there are examples of such a system out there, but I have yet to find any sample code.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?🙂

[dalecosp]

The client side VB code is handled by Javascript.

As for the server side, a simple [man]str_replace/man can handle it:

$text=str_replace("[b]", "<b>", $text);
// and so on ... lots of options, eh?

while [man]nl2br[/man] can handle the line breaks...

The trickiest thing would be automagically parsing URL's and email addy's....

[earthlingzed]

Thanks for the help. That gives me a good start.