Text formatting of articles pulled from database??
I am setting u a simple article storage/retrieval system and have set up a MySQL database with a few VARCHAR fields for author, date, source and a BLOB field for article. I have also set up two pages, one for editing/adding new articles and a second one for viewing the articles. The adding/deleting page uses a FORM with TEXTAREA to allow someone to copy past the text into the article field. This seems to work just fine and if I display the text back in a FORM TEXTAREA field, formatting works as I expect. Paragraphs are separated by a line of white space and the text wraps to the size of the TEXTAREA. I am trying to display the article on a second page which is formatted to look nice. I would like to avoid the borders and fixed height (with scroll bars) of the TEXTAREA field and instead put the text into an auto height table cell with fixed width=500 so the text still wraps nicely on the screen. I've set up a table with 3 columns to allow me to display the title, author, date, etc. nicely at the top and then defined a table cell that spans the 3 columns to hold the article. echo TD colspan=\3\ width=\532\P$article/P/TD; The text displays, but the paragraph breaks are gone and all the text is just run together into one long paragraph. Any suggestions on how to get $article to display and keep the white space between paragraphs that it has when displayed in a FORMTEXTAREA like echo td colspan=6textarea name='article' rows='15' cols='120'$article/textarea/td; For an example, see http://www.cobblekids.org/Pages/Articles/Article_View4b.php and click on an article title. Thanks, -Landy - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
Re: Text formatting of articles pulled from database??
Landy, echo TD colspan=\3\ width=\532\P$article/P/TD; The text displays, but the paragraph breaks are gone and all the text is just run together into one long paragraph. In PHP, you can use nl2br(), like: echo TD colspan=\3\ width=\532\P.nl2br($article)./P/TD; This will replace \n (the new-line character that makes that line break in TEXTAREA) by br/. If you're a maniac (like I am) you can even do: echo TD colspan=\3\ width=\532\P .str_replace(nl2br($article),br/,/pp style=\text-indent:10px\) ./P/TD; Or something similar to that. Regards, -- Stefan Hinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] iConnect GmbH http://iConnect.de Heesestr. 6, 12169 Berlin (Germany) Telefon: +49 30 7970948-0 Fax: +49 30 7970948-3 [filter fodder: sql, mysql, query] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
Re: Text formatting of articles pulled from database??
Landy Atkinson wrote on 19.03.2003 18:14 ... echo TD colspan=\3\ width=\532\P$article/P/TD; The text displays, but the paragraph breaks are gone and all the text is just run together into one long paragraph. Any suggestions on how to get $article to display and keep the white space between paragraphs that it has when displayed in a FORMTEXTAREA like echo td colspan=6textarea name='article' rows='15' cols='120'$article/textarea/td; For an example, see http://www.cobblekids.org/Pages/Articles/Article_View4b.php and click on an article title. Thanks, -Landy Landy, I think this is far more a php/html than a MySQL problem, I don't remember the code exactly but try playing around with the php-function htmlspecialchars (or similar) before inserting into DB / echo-ing out the article and you'll hopefully find a solution soon. Rgds, Henning - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
