text area to html?

[bencooke]

Hi guys,

I'm starting an admin area for a 'news site' for my uni project and I need at the moment to make a page where a user can type or copy and paste a news story as plain text into a text area on the page so using code I can convert it into basic html and save it as a file.

I need to be able to search through the text in the field, remove any nasty tags and detect where line return or new line characters and replace them with appropriate <p> or </p> tags.

Can anyone help me with this?

After this I will sort out file handling to create a file and save the text there as news stories in my system are displayed by 'including' the file. I should be able to sort that its just this new line p tag thing.

Thanks guys,

beN

[rincewind456]

Check out the manual!
[man]strip_tags/man
[man]str_replace/man etc.

There is a link to it in my sig.

[Weedpacket]

Well, [man]strip_tags[/man] would be a start. Then [man]str_replace[/man]. Then there are all the [man]filesystem[/man] functions for creating, writing, and reading files.

In short, do a bit of research first.

[bencooke]

thanks

The file handling won't be a problem but what i meant to ask is what is the character that is put in the text area when the user types return to make a new line or paragraph and how do i represent that in the code for replacing it.

cheers,

beN

[rincewind456]

Check out the manual!
Strings

[jpmoriarty]

also nl2br()