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

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Depends on how you define p in the CSS...

ggt667

On 8/10/07, Steve Winter <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan and Kevin,
>
> I think Kevin, that function will work fine for half of Jonathan's
> requirements, the 'post the data back on the web page' (though wouldn't
>
>         echo '<p>'.nl2br($theData).'</p>';
>
> have just the same result...?)
>
> However for the other half of the requirements, if you use that function in
> a textarea to allow editing Jonathan, then it's going to display <p>, <br />
> and </p> tags within that textarea, then store those back in the db, then
> end up in something of a mess next time it gets displayed...
>
> For your text area you should just be able to use echo the data straight
> into the text area and the newline characters stored in FMP will be rendered
> out giving the correct display in the text field...
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
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> On 10/8/07 2:06 PM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jschwartz at exit445.com> wrote:
>
> > Nope.  That was the question, all right.
> >
> > That was easier than I thought.  I'd love to have the function.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > J
>
> Hi Johnathan,
>
> Try this out:
>
> // function to replace line breaks in FM output with <br /> or <p> elements
>
> function formatDesc($input)
> {
> $br = chr(10); // single line feed character (LF)
> $p = "<br />\n<br />\n";
> $badChars = array($p, "& ");
> $goodChars = array("</p>\n\t\t<p>", "&amp; ");
> $text = str_replace($br, "<br />\n", $input); // replace LF with <br />
>
> $description = str_replace($badChars, $goodChars, $text);
> echo "<p>" . $description . "</p>\n";
> }
>
> Modify it as you need to!
>
> --
> Kevin Futter
> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
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