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

[Chris Bisgard]

Steve,

Strictly speaking, echoing nl2br($theData) inside paragraph tags will not do
exactly the same thing as Kevin's function, because if I'm not mistaken,
nl2br() does not replace two consecutive LF characters with </p><p>. Instead
of multiple paragraphs, you'd get one paragraph with an occasional <br><br>
in it. That's always been close enough for me, and it's how I usually do it,
but may not be adequate for Jonathan's needs.

I would do what I think someone else already suggested, which is to use
Kevin's function to display the data as static text on the page, but when
the data needs to be editable, grab the raw data from FM. I've done this,
and the carriage returns have appeared in the textarea field as desired.

Chris Bisgard


 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of 
> Steve Winter
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:59 PM
> To: 'FX.php Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: [FX.php List] Keeping Carriage Returns in 
> Textarea submissions
> 
> 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($theData).'</p>';
> 
> have just the same result...?)
> 
> However for the other half of the requirements, if you use 
> that function in a textarea to allow editing Jonathan, then 
> it's going to display <p>, <br /> and </p> tags within that 
> textarea, then store those back in the db, then end up in 
> something of a mess next time it gets displayed...
> 
> For your text area you should just be able to use echo the 
> data straight into the text area and the newline characters 
> stored in FMP will be rendered out giving the correct display 
> in the text field...
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of 
> Kevin Futter
> Sent: Friday, 10 August 2007 7:37 a.m.
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Keeping Carriage Returns in 
> Textarea submissions
> 
> On 10/8/07 2:06 PM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jschwartz at exit445.com> wrote:
> 
> > Nope.  That was the question, all right.
> > 
> > That was easier than I thought.  I'd love to have the function.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > J
> 
> Hi Johnathan,
> 
> Try this out:
> 
> // function to replace line breaks in FM output with <br /> 
> or <p> elements
> 
> function formatDesc($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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