Plain Textbox HTML Conversion

influx

Hey all,

I have a website for a few friends of mine to post on a weblog. To post an entry onto their blog, I just have a plain textbox (per their requests), that later converts the text in the textbox to HTML code using the nl2br and htmlentities functions.

This works fine, the quotes and single quotes don't screw anything up, but when they go to edit their entries, it shows the <br /> tags at every line break. Is there any way I can hide this from them and just input actual line breaks where the <br /> tags belong?

Thanks in advance!
-influx

thorpe

you could use a custom function.

function br2nl($str) {
  return str_replace("<br />","\n",$str);
}

Weedpacket

Or instead of using nl2br() when receiving their post, wait until you're actually going to display the post and use it then.

Then you won't need to take the <br /> tags out again for people to edit. ('Course, that would mean stripping all those <br />s out of the posts you already have.)

influx

Beautiful, works like a charm.

So one last question:

I should still use the htmlentities() function when storing it in the database...right? This is the only function I would need for safe storage in the database, correct?

Thanks in advance!
-influx