Saving HTML in a database.

[Nuno Paquete]

Hi group.
I need to save HTML to a database, but I have to be sure that these text is
well saved, I mean, imagine that you've got a <TEXTAREA> and want to save
the text inside. If the user type an ENTER in the middle of that text then
we need to save this in the database in a format that could be later well
translated.
Does anyone know what function shoul I use or what method should I use?
I've read a few months ago about a function that do this but I don't
remember now.

I hope someone can help me, thanks in advance.

Nuno Paquete.

[Jeff Thies]

"Nuno Paquete" <nm*@ispgaya.pt> wrote in message
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Hi group.
I need to save HTML to a database, but I have to be sure that these text is well saved, I mean, imagine that you've got a <TEXTAREA> and want to save
the text inside. If the user type an ENTER in the middle of that text then
we need to save this in the database in a format that could be later well
translated.
Databases have no trouble saving linebreaks.

If you want to turn the linebreak into say a <br>, then you probably would
do that server side a regular expression (or something similar).

Is there a javascript question here?

Jeff
Does anyone know what function shoul I use or what method should I use?
I've read a few months ago about a function that do this but I don't
remember now.

I hope someone can help me, thanks in advance.

Nuno Paquete.

[Nuno Paquete]

Hi

Is there a javascript question here?

Yes.
Like i said I've read in a book a function that do just that, but I don't
remember the name of the function, and that function is Javascript, I
suppose.

Any more ideas?

Nuno Paquete.

[Grant Wagner]

Nuno Paquete wrote:

Hi

> Is there a javascript question here?

Yes.
Like i said I've read in a book a function that do just that, but I don't
remember the name of the function, and that function is Javascript, I
suppose.

Any more ideas?

Nuno Paquete.

"and that function is Javascript" is only true if you are using server-side
Javascript to serve up the content from the database. The mechanism
(function) to change new line characters stored in a database into a <br> for
output as HTML depends entirely on the server-side technology being used.
Note we keep saying "server-side". If you are reading data from a database on
the server, and outputting that to the client as HTML, then you have some
sort of server-side technology available (Perl, PHP, JSP, ASP, ColdFusion,
etc).

The place to change a new line character stored in the database into a <br>
for display as HTML is on the server.

As an example only, if you were using server-side JScript (ASP), you might do
something like:

function newlineToBr(s) {
return s.replace(/\n/g, '<br>');
}

Then you'd use it in your code as:

<td><%= newlineToBr(fieldFromDatabase) %></td>

Other server-side technologies would involve slightly different syntax, but
the concept is the same.

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