Changing contents of textarea

[Geoff Berrow]

I have a textarea on a form whose value is stored in a database. I want to
display the contents as an unordered list. At the moment I am using * to
start the line and ; to end the line in the textarea and then replacing
these characters like so:

<ul>
<?php
$features=$myrow["features"];
$search = array("*", ";");
$replace =array("\t\t<li>", "</li>\n");
$list=str_replace($search,$replace,$features);
print "$list";
?>
</ul>

Is it possible to do this without the extra characters, say by just putting
the list items on separate lines in the textarea?
--
Geoff Berrow

[Jon Kraft]

Geoff Berrow <$b**@ckdog.co.uk> wrote:

I have a textarea on a form whose value is stored in a database. I want
to
display the contents as an unordered list. At the moment I am using * to
start the line and ; to end the line in the textarea and then replacing
these characters like so:

<ul>
<?php
$features=$myrow["features"];
$search = array("*", ";");
$replace =array("\t\t<li>", "</li>\n");
$list=str_replace($search,$replace,$features);
print "$list";
?>
</ul>

Is it possible to do this without the extra characters, say by just
putting the list items on separate lines in the textarea?

Hi Geoff,

Yes:

<ul>
<?php
$features = $myrow["features"];
$search = "\n";
$replace = "</li>\n\t\t<li>";
$list = str_replace($search,$replace,$features);
print "<li>".$list."</li>";
?>
</ul>

HTH;
JOn