[Resolved] Help with text input and output

[Percadan]

I wanting to input a report into a table named reports . The fields I am using are as followed:

id int(8) auto_increment unique
event varchar(30)
event_date varchar(10)
title text
subtitle text
author varchar(30)
report text
posted date

Question #1:
Once $report is submitted by the form, what would be the best way of formatting the large piece of text to recognize carriage returns, newlines, and other word processing formats like bold, italics, or event special characters.

Question #2:
What would the most efficient way of displaying the report, roughly.

Thanks for any help.

[Pig]

When displaying the data, you can use nl2br() to get line breaks added. There is no way to preserve bold and italics unless you put in actual HTML tags, or pseudo tags like [b], and then replace them at vewing time.

[Percadan]

Yeah, I never seen anyway to format bold, but it never hurts to ask. Is nl2br() a standard function?

Would it be nl2br('$variable');

Thanks for the help.

[Pig]

Never hurts to check the manual. It's answers will be more complete than you will find in the forums.

http://php.net/nl2br