different fonts for textarea

chintupintu03

Hello all,

I would like to get help for my following query :

On my form, there are different types of input fields for the user. (text box, text area, check box, drop-down list etc.)

All the inputs from user are to be stored in database table.

For the text area, I would like to allow user to put the contents in various languages. (e.g. english or one of the indian languages)

e.g.
For first row, user inputs "Hello, I am fine. Nice to meet you."
For the second row, user wants to input [ "Hello, I am fine. Nice to meet you." ], this line in one of the indian languages.

For the third row, user wants to input mix of multiple languages.

Is it possible to make possible for user to select font of choice to entere contents in selected language. Can it be done directly in PHP or javascript is to used in addition for doing this task.

[ In other words, another example is :

If the user is preparing a document in MS-word, he can apply various fonts, styles sizes etc. in single document by selecting the font, size etc. of choice ]

Looking for guidence.

FatalError

I have seen a couple sites do this, so it is technically possible (check out MySpace or Gmail), but it is extremely difficult, and I wouldn't even bother with it. Just use BB Code like this site does. 😉

cahva

Fatalerror youre wrong 🙂
You can use FCKeditor. With that, you can modify each textarea with configuration you want. Its very easy to setup and use.

FatalError

cahva wrote:
Fatalerror youre wrong 🙂
You can use FCKeditor. With that, you can modify each textarea with configuration you want. Its very easy to setup and use.

Yes, but have you seen the source code for that thing? Tens of pages of JavaScript. Use it if you must, although I would not recommend it for a number of reasons.

cahva

Ofcourse I've seen the source code for that thing 🙂 But you dont have to modify it in any way so its not a problem. The output is as simple as you want it to be.

Weedpacket

Houdini

You can't really have three users using the same textarea at the same time but you can use a variable for the texarea style, bear with me if this doesn't make sense right yet. in your form you can set any font you want and if the user actually has that font available then it will display. Take the below code for example.

<html>
<body>
<form action="display.php" method="post">Choose Font
<input type='radio' value="normal" name="font">Normal
<input type='radio' value="comic" name="font" style="font-family;'Comic Sans MS'"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Comic</span>
<textarea style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"' rows =20 cols=35 name='test'></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Post it!">
</form>
</body>
</html>

The above will dispay characters in [FONT=Comic Sans MS]Comic Sans MS that look like this.[/FONT] Then to see what was inputted into the textarea you could simply do
this with the display.php file

<?php
if($_POST['font']=='comic'){
echo "<span style='font-family:\"Comic Sans MS\"'>".$_POST['test']."</span>";
}
else
echo $_POST['test'];
?>

So you could then use a variable for one of several fonts instead of the actual name of the font. Of course right now I could be completely wrong about what you are wanting to do.