inserting data via browser(textarea) into database

[Tommy DN]

I just wanted to make something that creates html-code which should be
inserted in a mysql database.

The user should type text in a textarea. When the user submits the data,
all enters should be translated into "<br>" and it would be nice if the
user could also insert links ( "<a href="..." ) in the formular.

Does someone knows a good, very simple script? There are wysiwyg editors
on the net, but I don't need to modify fonts, colors et cetera. The most
important thing are the "<br>" tags which should be generated.

[frizzle]

Tommy DN wrote:

I just wanted to make something that creates html-code which should be
inserted in a mysql database.

The user should type text in a textarea. When the user submits the data,
all enters should be translated into "<br>" and it would be nice if the
user could also insert links ( "<a href="..." ) in the formular.

Does someone knows a good, very simple script? There are wysiwyg editors
on the net, but I don't need to modify fonts, colors et cetera. The most
important thing are the "<br>" tags which should be generated.

Concerning the breaks, you'd might wanna check out the built in php
function nl2br()
Found at http://php.net/nl2br
Turns (textfield) breaks into <br />.

Frizzle.

[J.O. Aho]

Tommy DN wrote:

I just wanted to make something that creates html-code which should be
inserted in a mysql database.

The user should type text in a textarea. When the user submits the data,
all enters should be translated into "<br>" and it would be nice if the
user could also insert links ( "<a href="..." ) in the formular.

new line to <br> is easily done with nl2br()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

For urls you will most likely need to make your own function that uses regexp,
there are a number of functions you can use to transform a web-address into a
anchor.
http://www.php.net/manual-lookup.php...regexp&lang=en

//Aho

[Brian Mansell]

This should be able to handle converting urls to links...

function text_to_link_conversion($text) {
$text =
eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',
'\\1<a href="http://\\2">\\2</a>', $text);
$text =
eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',
'<a href="\\1">\\1</a>', $text);
return $text;
}