Text and Rich Text to HTML conversion using PHP?

bkbragg

I'm trying to find a script/function that will take input, either from a text area form field, a text file or a rich text file and spit out formatted html. I know PHP has a built in function that will insert line breaks, but I'm looking for something a bit more sophisticated in terms for formatting.

Anybody know where I can find something like that?

I'm trying to avoid writing something that consists of dozens of string replaces, which is the only way I know to do something like this.

Any help would be massively appreciated.

acidbox

Did u try echoing your data with <pre> tags? If you have a text file that has formatting, a lot of times putting them between <pre> </pre> helps a lot. I use it for when i print arrays and such.

Asside from that, htmlspecialchars() converts HTML tags to non-html tags.

If that doesn't help, I didn't understand your question 🙂

bkbragg

No, that's now what I'm looking to do. What I want to do is covert formatted text either from ascii or rich text to marked up html. I want to strip out smart quotes, replace two carriage returns with an end paragraph and begin paragraph tag and a single carriage return with a break tag. If the rich text has bold or italics, I want to preserve that. Just wrapping in pre tags won't work.

Thanks for the suggestion though

Originally posted by acidbox
Did u try echoing your data with <pre> tags? If you have a text file that has formatting, a lot of times putting them between <pre> </pre> helps a lot. I use it for when i print arrays and such.

Asside from that, htmlspecialchars() converts HTML tags to non-html tags.

If that doesn't help, I didn't understand your question 🙂

acidbox

maybe this will help?

http://directory.fsf.org/webauth/htmlconvert/rtf2html.html

bkbragg

Looks like. Thank you kindly.

Originally posted by acidbox
maybe this will help?

http://directory.fsf.org/webauth/htmlconvert/rtf2html.html