Re: [PHP] Formatting Question

[Toby Osbourn]

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, I used the nl2br function in the
end, and it works perfectly.

On 02/10/06, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Mon, October 2, 2006 4:13 pm, tedd wrote:
 Why not use nl2br() to show the data in the browser and leave the
 data as-is in the dB?

Apparently I typed too much, cuz that's exactly what I said, or meant
to say...

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[PHP] Formatting Question

[Toby Osbourn]

Sorry to plague you with a question that should have a simple answer, but I
can't find said answer anywhere (probably looking for the wrong things in
the wrong places!)

Basically I want to allow a user to input a string via a form into a
database, I have the code to do that and it works almost 100% - I have made
it so that any html tags are stripping off the string before saving it, but
I do want to allow some basic formatting - namely when a user takes a new
line in the textbox, I want the new line to carry over to the database.

At the moment the user could type in something like this...

wibble
wobble

But after it has been submitted and then retrieved from the database it will
return wibblewobble.

Any ideas?

Regards

Toby

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[PHP] Stop - Blog Time

[Toby Osbourn]

I don't want to spam a new blog I have created, so I won't post a link to
it, but I was thinking about every so often talking about PHP and its many
uses - to that end, if anyone has anything they want to blog, but couldn't
be bothered actually making a blog, please email me - naturally you will get
full credit for the article etc. etc.

[PHP] readdir

[Toby Osbourn]

I have been writing some code that visits each directory stored within one
directory in turn, pics a random image from it and displays that image.

I have the code working fine, apart from one small quirk that I can't really
understand.

In one version of the implementation, the directories appear to be getting
accessed in the order they are uploaded to / edited on the server starting
with the most recent upload/change - which is handy because it is what I
wanted.

But in another slightly different version of the same bit of code, it lists
them in some weird order that I can't fathom.

I suppose my question put simply is, what is the default ordering of
directories when PHP uses the readdir method? And is there anyway to force a
specific ordering to the directories before PHP searches down them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Toby