WYSIWYG Editor Troubles

[Dj-Dark-1]

I am using a free WYSIWYG editor on my website for creating news articles. The editor works fine without verification like you can use different fonts and it stores it in a database and the news article has these different fonts.

I then tried to use validation like make sure the user hasnt just clicked enter and forces them to make a message. I used the empty function and tried the isset one. None work, I also used errigi but then you start getting problems that I cannot change the font as it uses invalid characters. Any Ideas anyone, for how to fix that if a use enters no message then error but anything else -> no error.

I will post that segment of my code if necessary,

Thanks in advanced.

[dagon]

check what the WYSIWYG editor sends if they just press enter, probably "<p></p>" or some other marked up html, then use preg_match to check for it.

[Dj-Dark-1]

Thanks, I figured it out. It sends <br> so I just used the srtlen function and made the text to be greater than 5 to post it.

Thanks again.

[dagon]

ok but

 if ($_POST[message]=="<br>"){
bad
}

would be more sucsinct