if i wanted to have the text i enter into a database be retrived formated the way i want it how could i do that

[so many sites so little time]

say i want spacing in my text so instead of doing
<br>
<br>
in between the lines
or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?

[Marcin Dobrucki]

so many sites so little time wrote:

say i want spacing in my text so instead of doing
<br>
<br>
in between the lines
or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?

I don't quite understand what you are saying. Could you give an
example of what text you have, and what you want to get out of it?

[Moot]

so many sites so little time wrote:

say i want spacing in my text so instead of doing
<br>
<br>
in between the lines
or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?

Does this do what you want?
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

It would take care of the line spacing issue, but I don't quite
understand what you want to do with links.

[Krustov]

<comp.lang.php>
<so many sites so little time>
<19 Nov 2006 21:17:23 -0800>
<11**********************@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>

say i want spacing in my text so instead of doing
<br>
<br>
in between the lines
or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?

If you mean you have a piece of bare text like http://www.whatever.com
and you want to make it into a hyperlink after grabbing it from your
database - then you could do something like the following .

<?php

$grab="http://www.whatever.com";

$extra="<a href=$grab>$grab</a>";

print $extra;

?>

You could then store $extra in your database so it could be grabbed and
displayed like the following .

<?php

# read $extra from database .

print $extra;

?>
--
www.phpwhois.co.uk

[Geoff Berrow]

Message-ID: <MP************************@news.newsreader.comfro m
Krustov contained the following:

>or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?

If you mean you have a piece of bare text like http://www.whatever.com
and you want to make it into a hyperlink after grabbing it from your
database - then you could do something like the following .

<?php

$grab="http://www.whatever.com";

$extra="<a href=$grab>$grab</a>";

print $extra;

?>

It could be that he wants to turn anything that just looks like a link
into a link. That would involve a bit of regex (note to self: must put
in effort to learn more regex...)

--
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My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
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[so many sites so little time]

yeah i guess i should get into regex, basicly i should prob just make a
button like most message boards do out of javascript to let them make
it a link i think wordpress does it that way to... blah off to school
Geoff Berrow wrote:

Message-ID: <MP************************@news.newsreader.comfro m
Krustov contained the following:

or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?

If you mean you have a piece of bare text like http://www.whatever.com
and you want to make it into a hyperlink after grabbing it from your
database - then you could do something like the following .

<?php

$grab="http://www.whatever.com";

$extra="<a href=$grab>$grab</a>";

print $extra;

?>

It could be that he wants to turn anything that just looks like a link
into a link. That would involve a bit of regex (note to self: must put
in effort to learn more regex...)

--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

[so many sites so little time]

acutally what krustov said is more of what i want, as long as they
write out the link http:// then it should work well.
so many sites so little time wrote:

yeah i guess i should get into regex, basicly i should prob just make a
button like most message boards do out of javascript to let them make
it a link i think wordpress does it that way to... blah off to school
Geoff Berrow wrote:

Message-ID: <MP************************@news.newsreader.comfro m
Krustov contained the following:

>or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
>what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?
>>
>
>If you mean you have a piece of bare text like http://www.whatever.com
>and you want to make it into a hyperlink after grabbing it from your
>database - then you could do something like the following .
>
><?php
>
>$grab="http://www.whatever.com";
>
>$extra="<a href=$grab>$grab</a>";
>
>print $extra;
>
>?>

It could be that he wants to turn anything that just looks like a link
into a link. That would involve a bit of regex (note to self: must put
in effort to learn more regex...)

--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

[malatestapunk]

so many sites so little time wrote:

acutally what krustov said is more of what i want, as long as they
write out the link http:// then it should work well.
so many sites so little time wrote:

yeah i guess i should get into regex, basicly i should prob just make a
button like most message boards do out of javascript to let them make
it a link i think wordpress does it that way to... blah off to school
Geoff Berrow wrote:

Message-ID: <MP************************@news.newsreader.comfro m
Krustov contained the following:
>
or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?
>

If you mean you have a piece of bare text like http://www.whatever.com
and you want to make it into a hyperlink after grabbing it from your
database - then you could do something like the following .

<?php

$grab="http://www.whatever.com";

$extra="<a href=$grab>$grab</a>";

print $extra;

?>
>
It could be that he wants to turn anything that just looks like a link
into a link. That would involve a bit of regex (note to self: must put
in effort to learn more regex...)
>
>
>
--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

If you want to search plain text for valid urls and replace them with
links, here is a regex that may help you out:
<?php
$rx = '
{
\b
# Match the leading part (proto://hostname, or just hostname)
(
# ftp://, http://, or https:// leading part
(ftp|https?)://[-\w]+(\.\w[-\w]*)+
|
# or, try to find a hostname with our more specific
sub-expression
(?i: [a-z0-9] (?:[-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? \. )+ # sub domains
# Now ending .com, etc. For these, require lowercase
(?-i: com\b
| edu\b
| biz\b
| gov\b
| in(?:t|fo)\b # .int or .info
| mil\b
| net\b
| org\b
| [a-z][a-z]\b # two-letter country codes
)
)

# Allow an optional port number
( : \d+ )?

# The rest of the URL is optional, and begins with / . . .
(

/
# The rest are heuristics for what seems to work well
[^;"\'<>()\[\]{}\s\x7F-\xFF]*
(?:
[.,?]+ [^;"\'<>()\[\]{}\s\x7F-\xFF]+
)*
)?
}x';

$text = "blah blah http://www.google.com, text text more text etc";
echo preg_replace ($rx, '<a href="\1">\1</a>', $text);
?>

[malatestapunk]

so many sites so little time wrote:

acutally what krustov said is more of what i want, as long as they
write out the link http:// then it should work well.
so many sites so little time wrote:

yeah i guess i should get into regex, basicly i should prob just make a
button like most message boards do out of javascript to let them make
it a link i think wordpress does it that way to... blah off to school
Geoff Berrow wrote:

Message-ID: <MP************************@news.newsreader.comfro m
Krustov contained the following:
>
or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?
>

If you mean you have a piece of bare text like http://www.whatever.com
and you want to make it into a hyperlink after grabbing it from your
database - then you could do something like the following .

<?php

$grab="http://www.whatever.com";

$extra="<a href=$grab>$grab</a>";

print $extra;

?>
>
It could be that he wants to turn anything that just looks like a link
into a link. That would involve a bit of regex (note to self: must put
in effort to learn more regex...)
>
>
>
--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

If you want to search plain text for valid urls and replace them with
links, here is a regex that may help you out:
<?php
$rx = '
{
\b
# Match the leading part (proto://hostname, or just hostname)
(
# ftp://, http://, or https:// leading part
(ftp|https?)://[-\w]+(\.\w[-\w]*)+
|
# or, try to find a hostname with our more specific
sub-expression
(?i: [a-z0-9] (?:[-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? \. )+ # sub domains
# Now ending .com, etc. For these, require lowercase
(?-i: com\b
| edu\b
| biz\b
| gov\b
| in(?:t|fo)\b # .int or .info
| mil\b
| net\b
| org\b
| [a-z][a-z]\b # two-letter country codes
)
)

# Allow an optional port number
( : \d+ )?

# The rest of the URL is optional, and begins with / . . .
(

/
# The rest are heuristics for what seems to work well
[^;"\'<>()\[\]{}\s\x7F-\xFF]*
(?:
[.,?]+ [^;"\'<>()\[\]{}\s\x7F-\xFF]+
)*
)?
}x';

$text = "blah blah http://www.google.com, text text more text etc";
echo preg_replace ($rx, '<a href="\1">\1</a>', $text);
?>

[malatestapunk]

Of course, that was from "Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition",
by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. It's a great book - definitely a must-read.

[so many sites so little time]

ok wow im most def. gonna use that and tweak it a bit what i really
well what my freind told me i need to figure out is on a message board
the whole bb code i guess it is where you have the buttons above the
textbox and you click bold and it inserts a bold <b></bwhere you are
typing or before the word and after the word if highllighted there must
be some scripts online or i think its gotto be javascript i dunno if i
knew what lang it was it wouldnt be so hard, you know what im talking
about right its got the little chainlink for if you want a link and
stuff like that
malatestapunk wrote:

Of course, that was from "Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition",
by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. It's a great book - definitely a must-read.

[so many sites so little time]

one last quick thing can i have lets say $text be something like $a =
$b & $c
malatestapunk wrote:

Of course, that was from "Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition",
by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. It's a great book - definitely a must-read.

[so many sites so little time]

like can one var = 2 others
so many sites so little time wrote:

one last quick thing can i have lets say $text be something like $a =
$b & $c
malatestapunk wrote:

Of course, that was from "Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition",
by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. It's a great book - definitely a must-read.

[malatestapunk]

so many sites so little time wrote:

like can one var = 2 others
so many sites so little time wrote:

one last quick thing can i have lets say $text be something like $a =
$b & $c
malatestapunk wrote:

Of course, that was from "Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition",
by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. It's a great book - definitely a must-read.

I'm not sure I understand - but if jou just want to concatenate two
strings (append one string to the other one), you can do it like this:

$s1 = "bla"; $s2 = "a string";
echo $s1 . $s2; // output: blaa string
// OR
echo "$s1 $s2" // Note: only double quotes here. Output: bla a string

As for the BBCode - it is a specific markup language, where you put
tags in square brackets (as in '...' for bold, etc) - just like
you have in some forums. It's not HTML. There are ready-made PHP
libraries for conversion of BBCode to HTML - check out PHPClasses, for
example. I guess there are some javascript editors (like the one you
described), but I don't have any experience with them.

There are also some javascript HTML editors, and you can use them
instead of BBCode to get HTML right away (note: you really should do
some xss filtering). I kind of like TinyMC Editor
(http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/), some others prefer FCKEditor
(http://www.fckeditor.net/). There are some others too, so you may want
to do some googling.

But if you consider BBCode, you may also want to look at some other
(IMHO, better) markup alternatives - Textile
(http://jimandlissa.com/project/textilephp) and Markdown
(http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/). They both have syntax
similar to the one used in Wikis (eg. *bold* for bold, etc), and they
both produce valid (x)HTML. It's basically the same approach as with
BBCode (your users input something that's not HTML, but you use some
PHP code to convert that input into valid HTML), but it's easier to
type and read. No ready-made javascript editors (that I know of) for
these, though.