Text formating after print

[tolkienarda]

hi all
I am working on a content management service and i need some help keeping formating.
what i am doing is recreating my site in an admin side and all of the articles on the site will now be in <textarea> boxes so admins can edit them and save the changes it is working but any formating they use dosen't seem to work. if they want to have a return
in the middle of their article the only way it will work is if they enter a br tag in the article. is there any way to keep also double spaces are turned to one. does anyone know how to fix all of this.

you can see the page at
http://www.steppinupwe bdesign.com/cms/index.php
and the admin page is
http://www.steppinupwe bdesign.com/cms/admin.php

thanks
eric

[Motoma]

This thread contains a discussion about converting line breaks to <br> and back.

[tolkienarda]

Hi
I know it is probably somthing stupid i did but that didn't seem to work

on the three pages of where i am trying to use this i have put a copy of my php into html comments so that you can see them. i also posted what i feel is the important part below.

http://www.steppinupwe bdesign.com/cms/admin.php - the admin side
http://www.steppinupwe bdesign.com/cms/index.php - the display page

[PHP]
<?

if (isset($_POST['hometxt1title']))
$title = strip_tags($_PO ST['hometxt1title']);
if (isset($_POST['hometxt1txt']))
$text = ($_POST['hometxt1txt']);
if (isset($_POST['hometxt1author ']))
$author = strip_tags($_PO ST['hometxt1author ']);
if (isset($_POST['location']))
$location = strip_tags($_PO ST['location']);

$text=str_repla ce(array("<br>" ,"<br/>","<br />"), array("\n","\n" ,"\n"), $text);


mysql_query("UP DATE articles SET title = '$title', author= '$author', article = '$text' WHERE location = '$location'");
$result=mysql_q uery("SELECT id, title, author, article, location FROM articles");
$row=mysql_num_ rows($result);
?>
[/PHP]

[Motoma]

I'm not quite familiar with what you are trying to do, so perhaps you could explain what, exactly, the error/bug is as I look at your page.

[tolkienarda]

hi

ok my admin page isn't labeled very well the first text box is the article title, the second is the author and the text area is the article. when typing the article if i press the enter button
it gets saved as one line

press the enter buttonit gets saved as one line

like shown above.

sorry about the unclarity
eric

[Motoma]

Okay, after you submit, you will need to replace the occurrences of "\n" with "<br />". I have some sample code in the link I posted earlier to do just this.
Hope this is what you are looking for.

[tolkienarda]

Okay, after you submit, you will need to replace the occurrences of "\n" with "<br />". I have some sample code in the link I posted earlier to do just this.
Hope this is what you are looking for.

so i need to put it on the actual admin page before it submits or do i put it on the update page
and if on the admin page where

eric

[Motoma]

so i need to put it on the actual admin page before it submits or do i put it on the update page
and if on the admin page where

eric

You need to put it where you want it like that.

[tolkienarda]

You need to put it where you want it like that.

Hi

for some reason this isn't working. i am not sure why but here is a sequence of everything that happens
[PHP]
if (isset($_POST['hometxt1txt']))
$text = ($_POST['hometxt1txt']);

$newtext=str_re place(array("<b r>","<br/>","<br />"), array("\n","\n" ,"\n"), $text);
$oldtext=str_re place(array("/n"), array("<br />"), $newtext);

echo '<br />', $newtext, '<br />', $oldtext, '<br />', $text;
[/PHP]

I am guessing that i am not using php v5 or above because the str_ireplace command made everything break

thanks
eric

[Motoma]

What about the above code isn't working? I am not sitting in front of a server to test the code, so perhaps you could explain what is breaking?