[RESOLVED] Part of pasted text bold or italicised

[ottimoto]

I've built a website which allows the client to upload daily messages via PHP. My client is writing the text in Word and is pasting it into a message field which gets forwarded to a database. My variable for the message is defined with nl2Br, once extracted from the database for display. That gives me all line breaks from word. How do I keep the formatting from single words in bold or italics? Is there PHP function to keep those formats?

Thanks very much for your help
ottimoto

[NogDog]

You can only keep what the form sends to your script. HTML <textarea> elements to not have any way to mark text formatting, other than actually including some sort of text mark-up (such as the bbcode tags used in this forum).

Perhaps you'll want to look into adding a form text editor such as FCKeditor.

[ottimoto]

Thanks NogDog,

I will try and install FCKeditor for this website. Is this the only available tool?

ottimoto

[rsmith]

I use TinyMCE. I love it.

[ottimoto]

Thanks for the tip.
I downloaded TinyMCE and it seems fairly straightforward.
ottimoto