textarea help

[zcollvee]

I need some help for my forums : http://coolcenter.latestdot.net/forum.php
Is it possible to make php understand line breaks without

<Br />

?
Like this:

Line one
Line two

Should apear as
Line one
Line two

and not
Line oneLine two

Also I want to make a Emoticon thing. Where the user presses the smiley and it appears in the text and when they press Add reply the smiley should turn into a picture.

[theelectricwiz]

PHP understands the line breaks, it's just they aren't recognized in html. try to replace the line break and feed (\r\n) characters with the <br /> using str_replace().

Same thing for the emoicons. Look at how the one on this forum works. It inserts a phrase, say : e v i l g r i n : into the text. All you need to do for the emoicon to show when you view the post after you submit it is to replace (using str_replace for example) the phrase with the right html to insert the image and presto.

[zcollvee]

A demo plz?

[Weedpacket]

Plenty of demonstrations are to be found here (along with much much else): [man]str_replace[/man]

Although you don't need it for adding <br /> tags; [man]nl2br[/man] will do that.