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.steppinupwebdesign.com/cms/index.php
and the admin page is
http://www.steppinupwebdesign.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.steppinupwebdesign.com/cms/admin.php - the admin side
http://www.steppinupwebdesign.com/cms/index.php - the display page

[PHP]
<?

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

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


mysql_query("UPDATE articles SET title = '$title', author= '$author', article = '$text' WHERE location = '$location'");
$result=mysql_query("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_replace(array("<br>","<br/>","<br />"), array("\n","\n","\n"), $text);
$oldtext=str_replace(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?

[tolkienarda]

hi

i am not certain but my text isn't being printed with the break lines that i need

the output from that code when i enter:
asdf
asdf

is:
asdf asdf - this is the new text
asdf asdf - this should be the old text
asdf asdf - this is the original text


i do however belive i have found the problem
the information i am getting from my form dosen't have [returns] as <br> but is submitting the data on one line

thanks
eric

[ronverdonk]

What is this line doing?

$oldtext=str_replace(array("/n"), array("<br />"), $newtext);

.
You have your slash n the wrong way around and you don't need an array when you only have 1 item to replace. The statement should be

$oldtext=str_replace("\n", "<br />", $newtext);

Ronald :cool:

[tolkienarda]

thanks i havent done anything with strings in php till now

eric