[RESOLVED] Formatting a field in a database?

[pb1uk]

Hello all,

Hope my title was right, i'm kind of in the dark! I'm trying to build a site that will generate a template for ebay from records of items held in a table of a database.

Currently i have sorted out photos and some brief details from individual fields held in the database, my problem is when i come to the description field. On the form to enter a record to the database the description field is a text area where the user can enter details about the item. Currently when this is fetched back from the database for the template to copy and paste into ebay the field comes back as one line of text.

What i would like to achieve is have it so it can be displayed in the template as bullet points. I guess i would need some kind of editor when enterring the record to the database to convert what is written to html code or something, but i'm very unsure and in the dark of the issue, as you probably can tell!
If anyone knows of a solution to this or has some advice i would be very grateful

Thanks,

pb1uk

[dagon]

some kind of hrml wysiwyg for imputing sounds like the answer, the most commonly used 2 are tinymce and CKEditor

[pb1uk]

Excellent, thanks dagon.

Do you have any experience using either? Which would you say is better?

[dagon]

I use CKEditor, can't say its better, but once chosen a few years back it was easier to stick with one.

[pb1uk]

thanks, i'll give it a try