Formatting text

[ffsja]

Hello,
I'm creating a backend data entry form for my authors. They will be entering data in input text fields as well as memo fields.

When I output the data they have entered onto a page for the general users of the website I want parts of what my authors entered to be capitalized and some of the memo text needs to have paragraph breaks. Is this something I need to have the authors code into the form fields when they fill them out or is there a way using php to format text as it comes out to the end-user?

[daredevil14]

Use php to manipulate your data... try :

ucwords()

ucfirst()

nl2br()

[ffsja]

mmm, is there any way to format memo text with two <br /> instead of just one?

I'd like it to look just like this post with a space in-between the two 'paragraphs'.

[NogDog]

Assume text to format is in $text:

printf('<p>%s</p>', preg_replace('/[\r\n]+/', "</p>\n<p>", trim($text));