Re: Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Tim Streater
On 10 Aug 2011 at 22:07, Chris Stinemetz  wrote: 

>>
>>    Use HTML 'pre' tags:
>>
>>        
>>
>
> I just tried that and that puts all the text on a single line.

You could write the string into another textarea, which you could make readonly 
for this purpose.

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Re: Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Ashley Sheridan


Tim Streater  wrote:

>On 10 Aug 2011 at 22:39, Daniel P. Brown 
>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 17:37, Chris Stinemetz
>
>> wrote:
>>> No luck. Thanks.
>>
>>Per list rules, please don't top-post.
>>
>>If the situation you're describing is accurate and correct, then
>>  is indeed what you want.
>
>But can you put a  inside a table cell? (I don't know that
>you can't, but it seems an odd thing to do).
>
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First thing that jumps out at me is that the  tags are apparently ignored. 
This suggests one of those ridiculous reset.css files being used, which uses 
css to style every Danny element the same. If its set to override the 
whitespace setting in a  tag then that could cause the issue you are 
seeing, as I've never known pre tags to fail like that.

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Re: Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Tim Streater
On 10 Aug 2011 at 22:39, Daniel P. Brown  wrote: 

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 17:37, Chris Stinemetz 
> wrote:
>> No luck. Thanks.
>
>Per list rules, please don't top-post.
>
>If the situation you're describing is accurate and correct, then
>  is indeed what you want.

But can you put a  inside a table cell? (I don't know that you 
can't, but it seems an odd thing to do).

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Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 17:37, Chris Stinemetz  wrote:
> No luck. Thanks.

Per list rules, please don't top-post.

If the situation you're describing is accurate and correct, then
 is indeed what you want.

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Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Stinemetz
No luck. Thanks.

On Aug 10, 2011 4:17 PM,  wrote:
>
> how about
>
> echo nl2br($your_content);
>
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Chris Stinemetz 
> Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 5:09 pm
> Subject: Re: [PHP] text insertion
> To: "Daniel P. Brown" 
> Cc: Ashley Sheridan , PHP General <
php-general@lists.php.net>
>
> > >
> > >Use HTML 'pre' tags:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I just tried that and that puts all the text on a single line.
> >
> >
> > echo '
> > ' . $posts_row['first_name']
> > . ' ' .
> > $posts_row['last_name'] . ' ' . date('m-d-Y h:iA',
> > strtotime($posts_row['store_date'])) . '
> > 
> > 
> > Broad Band test results:
> > ' .
> > $posts_row['store_tptest'] . ''
> > .$posts_row['store_comments'] . '
> > ';
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Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread hdedeyan
how about 

echo nl2br($your_content);



- Original Message -
From: Chris Stinemetz 
Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 5:09 pm
Subject: Re: [PHP] text insertion
To: "Daniel P. Brown" 
Cc: Ashley Sheridan , PHP General 


> >
> >Use HTML 'pre' tags:
> >
> >
> >
> 
> I just tried that and that puts all the text on a single line.
> 
> 
> echo '
> ' . $posts_row['first_name'] 
> . ' ' .
> $posts_row['last_name'] . ' ' . date('m-d-Y h:iA',
> strtotime($posts_row['store_date'])) . '
> 
> 
> Broad Band test results: 
> ' .
> $posts_row['store_tptest'] . ''
> .$posts_row['store_comments'] . '
> ';
> 
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Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Stinemetz
>
>    Use HTML 'pre' tags:
>
>        
>

I just tried that and that puts all the text on a single line.


echo '
' . $posts_row['first_name'] . ' ' .
$posts_row['last_name'] . ' ' . date('m-d-Y h:iA',
strtotime($posts_row['store_date'])) . '


Broad Band test results: ' .
$posts_row['store_tptest'] . ''
.$posts_row['store_comments'] . '
';

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Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Daniel P. Brown
:On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 16:02, Chris Stinemetz
 wrote:
>> Are you sure its not preserved? When you output text in a browser, by 
>> default its output as html, not plain text. Html ignores extraneous 
>> whitespace, and doesn't use a monospaced font, so formatting text into 
>> columns in a textarea won't work either. Look at the html source code to see 
>> what is actually being output.
>
> Thanks Ashley
>
> Source is showing indentation and new paragaraphs just as I inserted
> the text. How can I get HTML output to show same format?

Use HTML 'pre' tags:



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Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Shaun Farrell
You could try using markdown too. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 10, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Ashley Sheridan  wrote:

> 
> 
> Chris Stinemetz  wrote:
> 
>> How do I preserve text formatting when text is inserted into a database
>> table?
>> 
>> For example: I am using a textarea to allow users to leave comments
>> into the database and I am using:
>> 
>> '" . mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['store_comments']) . "',to
>> prevent SQL injection;
>> 
>> But when I call the data with php from the database the format it was
>> inserted is not preserved. Is there a way to make sure when a user
>> adds new paragraphs or indentation it will be preserved?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Chris
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> 
> Are you sure its not preserved? When you output text in a browser, by default 
> its output as html, not plain text. Html ignores extraneous whitespace, and 
> doesn't use a monospaced font, so formatting text into columns in a textarea 
> won't work either. Look at the html source code to see what is actually being 
> output.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ash
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Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Stinemetz
> Are you sure its not preserved? When you output text in a browser, by default 
> its output as html, not plain text. Html ignores extraneous whitespace, and 
> doesn't use a monospaced font, so formatting text into columns in a textarea 
> won't work either. Look at the html source code to see what is actually being 
> output.

Thanks Ashley

Source is showing indentation and new paragaraphs just as I inserted
the text. How can I get HTML output to show same format?


Chris

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Re: [PHP] text insertion

2011-08-10 Thread Ashley Sheridan


Chris Stinemetz  wrote:

>How do I preserve text formatting when text is inserted into a database
>table?
>
>For example: I am using a textarea to allow users to leave comments
>into the database and I am using:
>
>'" . mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['store_comments']) . "',  to
>prevent SQL injection;
>
>But when I call the data with php from the database the format it was
>inserted is not preserved. Is there a way to make sure when a user
>adds new paragraphs or indentation it will be preserved?
>
>Thank you,
>
>Chris
>
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Are you sure its not preserved? When you output text in a browser, by default 
its output as html, not plain text. Html ignores extraneous whitespace, and 
doesn't use a monospaced font, so formatting text into columns in a textarea 
won't work either. Look at the html source code to see what is actually being 
output.

Thanks,
Ash
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