I need to collect information from a form into a MySQL database. People will be able to format their input using something called htmlArea -- it's a little tool that turns a plain text area box into a box like the ones we use to input info in this forum - with MS Word type easy text and link formatting. Once they're done and work is saved to the database, their information can be viewed/downloaded as a PDF.
I plan to use PHP to handle form input. It will be stored in a MySQL database as text. I will use FPDF to create the PDF files on the fly.
While htmlArea works really great for the non-techie user, unfortunately it adds a lot of MS Word excess HTML coding. The code can be as gruesome as FrontPage produced html....
I'm worried that pulling this excessively HTML encoded data from the MySQL database to be used with FPDF is just not going to work. Has anyone done anything like this and, if so, have run into problems with FPDF and funkily coded data?
Thanks for your help!
