Formatting Data

[obrienkev]

Hi all,

I have a html form where the user enters content into a textarea.

That content is then submitted into a MS SQL Server Database.

How do I ensure that correct formatting e.g. <p> tags are also inserted??

Thanks.

[dougal85]

if you mean to allow new lines, so they are preserved.

then you may want to use the function :

nl2br()

I'd use this when outputting the data.

[leatherback]

Try something like this:

function encode($text)  // Will add slashes and HTML linebreaks to variables submitted by user
  {
  if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) 
     {
     $uittext = addslashes($text);
     }
  else 
     {
     $uittext = $text;
     }
  return $uittext;
  }