forms - text to html on submission
hi all
what I'm trying to do is get a comments form that submits to a database to convert the main comment to html.
At the moment any comments submit end up being just 1 big paragraph even if the user hit enter a of times.
like this topic shows up like i type it if i had done this on my system it would be like this
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what I'm trying to do is get a comments form that submits to a database to convert the main comment to html.At the moment any comments submit end up being just 1 big paragraph even if the user hit enter a of times.
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any help with this matter would be grateful.
Busy posted this at 09:15 — 18th February 2006.
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What are using using for database etc, PHP/MYSQL, ASP/SQL .... ?
most text gets put as one long sentence unless you include nl2br() or similar
Let us know what your using and should be able to help further
mullet posted this at 12:06 — 18th February 2006.
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thanks dude im using php/mysql.....thanks for your help im not if its the form or the db thats does this mod..
ps. i just found my old login.
Busy posted this at 20:54 — 18th February 2006.
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If it's just the lines your worried about use nl2br(), will add a (or ) where the \n (newline) is.
$content_from_form_after_validation = nl2br($content_from_form_after_validation);
or you could use it as part of it, like strip slashes, convert htmlspecialcharacters() ..
mullet posted this at 21:20 — 18th February 2006.
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ok confused sorry.. to be hoonest im surprised i manedge to do this so far.. loll and its working kind of.
i have just been trying to find out about nl2br but even though it would work how would i include it in a form? it shows you how to include it in sendmail forms but thats it.
this is a page of one of my submission pages with the theme removed. where and what exsactly would i put for nl2br to work?
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doh that was two minutes ago.. figured it out it not the form it the message on display..
thankyou very much..
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