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[shimano55]

I am working on creating my own website system, but I am having trouble with the comments section and was wondering if you guys could help. ok, here it goes:

I have successfully made a system that creates the comments n the database, but users have to use HTML syntax in the comments to do any type of formatting. For example, to skip a line, users have to literally type <br /> or <br>. I want to make it so that isnt necessary, and users only have to hit the return button to skip a line.

Thank you for any help that you can give,

-shimano55

[bastien]

try htmlarea

[shimano55]

is there a coding alternative??

I dont really like to rely on programs to do my coding for me 😉.

My friend said it could be done using Perl Syntax, but he wont show me his work until his CMS release...lol...

can anyone help me on this?

thanks in advance,
shimano55

[drawmack]

the line breaks you're talking about can be accomplished with [man]nl2br[/man].

For other formatting you should implement something like bb code with regular expressions [man]pref_replace[/man] or [man]ereg_replace[/man] or [man]eregi_replace[/man].

All html should be removed with [man]striptags[/man]. As leaving html in there would most assuredly lead to xss vulnerabilities.