Article Input

[webchef]

Hello, and thanks in advance for your help.

I'm using MySql to store all my news articles.. the fields for the table are id, year, month, day, summary, courtesy_of, and body. When i paste the entire article into the text box in my form, i also add two '<br>' tags between each paragraph so that on output, the article will still retain its format.

but there must be a better way to do it. any suggestions?

Mike

[thoand]

I use to do this:

//assume that the textarea is names $bodytext

$bodytext = ereg_replace("\n","<br>", $bodytext);

//this replaces all newlines(invincible breaks in your textarea) with a HTML <br>

When you eg. open the text for updating you reverse the process before outputting:

$bodytext = ereg_replace("<br>","\n", $row['bodytext]);
<textarea name="bodytext"><?echo $bodytext;?></textarea>

and then in your update file again, before updating 🙂

$bodytext = ereg_replace("\n","<br>", $bodytext);

ciao Thomas

[kilbey1]

Methinks that will do the trick! Thanks....

[mtimdog]

[man]nl2br[/man] would probly work a bit faster/better