text formatting

[dmcglone]

Hi all,

I don't know if this is possibly a CSS question or a PHP question. Please bear with me.

I need to find out where would I look for information on text formatting. What I'm trying to do is figure out how to separate paragraphs of text coming from a database without having to stick html tags in the database. IE:

<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>

Is is possible to use the enter key such as hitting enter 2 times to separate the paragraphs when inserting the text into a database?

A good example would be this post. I hit enter 2 times to start another paragraph.

Thanks

[dagon]

it is a php issue, you can use str_replace to replace your line breaks

$text='<p>'.str_replace("\n\n",'</p><p>',$text).'</p>';

[dmcglone]

dagon;10913274 wrote:

it is a php issue, you can use str_replace to replace your line breaks

$text='<p>'.str_replace("\n\n",'</p><p>',$text).'</p>';

Ok this has left me baffled. I'm not sure how to use your code to see how it works. 😕

how would you use your example on this sql query:

<?PHP
$query = "SELECT headerText FROM text WHERE '".$content."' = page";
$result = @($query);

$text='<p>'.str_replace("\n\n",'</p><p>',$text).'</p>';

echo "<h1>My PHP practice and learning page</h1>

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
echo "$row[headerText]";
}

?>

The contents of the headerText row is typed into a db row like this:

This is the first paragraph of my practice page.

And this is the second paragrpah of my practice page.

There is no html formatting tags of any kind, just an 2 enter key presses that separates the lines.

Thanks

[dagon]

<?PHP
$query = "SELECT headerText FROM text WHERE '".$content."' = page";
$result = mysql_query($query);

echo '<h1>My PHP practice and learning page</h1>';

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$text='<p>'.str_replace("\n\n",'</p><p>',$row[headerText]).'</p>';

echo $text;

}
?>

[dmcglone]

dagon;10913280 wrote:

<?PHP
$query = "SELECT headerText FROM text WHERE '".$content."' = page";
$result = mysql_query($query);

echo '<h1>My PHP practice and learning page</h1>';

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$text='<p>'.str_replace("\n\n",'</p><p>',$row[headerText]).'</p>';

echo $text;

}
?>

How could I thank you! This not only demonstrated the technique, it also helped me understand the str_replace function. It's hard to follow the examples in the php manual sometimes.

I really appreciate the help Dagon. Someday I hope to be a good PHP programmer 🙂

[Weedpacket]

dmcglone wrote:

It's hard to follow the examples in the php manual sometimes.

I find that running them and messing around with them to see what happens helps.