[FX.php List] Keeping Carriage Returns in Textarea submissions

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Nope.  That was the question, all right.

That was easier than I thought.  I'd love to have the function.

Thanks

J

At 1:47 PM +1000 8/10/07, Kevin Futter wrote:
>On 10/8/07 1:27 PM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jschwartz at exit445.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Folks,
>>
>>  I'd like to capture multiple lines of user input in a textarea web
>>  form, store the input in FileMaker and re-post the data back on to a
>>  web page on demand, maintaining the line breaks.  Additionally, I'd
>>  like the user to be able to edit the original input and not have to
>>  see <break>'s.
>>
>>  For reference, I don't want to allow the user to add any text styling
>>  or html, so I am not considering a WYSIWYG editor.
>>
>>  Any suggestions for how to approach the task?
>>
>>  Jonathan
>>
>
>You should be able to do this with out any real effort Jonathan. Simply
>store the text in FileMaker as-is, and then use PHP to parse consecutive
>line feed characters as <p> tags. You can then reparse that data for single
>line feed characters and convert them to <br> elements. I've got a function
>I use to do this if you'd like me to post it. There's no need to store
>anything special in FileMaker, such as HTML or other codes.
>
>Allowing them to edit is simply repopulating a textarea element with the raw
>data from FM - it *should* come across with line breaks intact.
>
>Sorry if I've misunderstood your question!
>
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