[FX.php List] Keeping text formatting from a FM field

[Tim 'Webko' Booth]

On 28/05/2008, at 10:12 AM, Bob Patin wrote:

> I'm trying to display text just as the client entered it, but when I  
> try nl2br() I get the carriage returns and not the bolding.
>
> Then I tried htmlentities(nl2br()) but that didn't work, and in fact  
> removed the carriage returns.
>
> I searched my emails but couldn't find the solution; how do I do this?

I don't think you can... The contents of a field, when you look in the  
array, contain no stylistic elements, regardless of what is applied to  
the field. They do contain any returns that were part of the field  
contents.

You'd need to add html markup to the field that can then be  
interpreted back as part of the field to the web.

Mind you, if anyone can think of a way to do this, it would be very  
useful...

Of course, if the initial information is being entered via the web,  
you can use something like fckEditor to add the markup at the point of  
data entry.

Cheers

webko