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Text Formatting

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:07 am
by phppick
Hi,

I want Use Textarea with Formatting Options (like Bold, Italic etc etc)
Let say like this textarea in forum 'new topic posting'

Where can i get like this. i want this to be work in multi OS..

Like:
--------
Company Name

Street

Some text ,text text text text text
text text
text
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And with paragraphs

Any body can help me??

Thanks

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:04 am
by twigletmac
You want the buttons and stuff for adding the bbcode? Have you had a look in the source code of the page?

Mac

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:17 am
by JayBird
For something really advanced look at this

http://www.fredck.com/FCKeditor/

for a demo, look here http://www.fredck.com/FCKeditor/Demo/

Mark

Hi twigletmac - Text format

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:40 pm
by phppick
Hi twigletmac

Sorry for cross post.. So, i can download BBCode from sourceforge.net

And main issue is, i am entering some text as Paragraphs in text area. to store it in database i am using datatype 'text' .

But while displaying, its showing as one paragraph. Suppose if paste some content from BBC news website and if contains some 5-6 paragraphs, while displaying it to the user , Its showing as only one paragrpah. All the text in one para..

Can you help me on this??

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:49 pm
by tim
i'll give u a example:

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<?php
$sql = "select * from table_name";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$comment = nl2br($row["comment"]);

?>
focus your attention on the nl2br, this will give your line breaks =]

cheers

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:50 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
nl2br() function will fix that :)

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:51 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
beat me to the punch.. :P

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 8:21 pm
by tim
lol i been beat my fair share of times here...

I hate hitting that edit button! :oops:

Thanks

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 11:32 pm
by phppick
Hi,

Thanks for your solution TIM.its working great.

Anyway you have any idea how to Implement BBCODE, in my page? i wnat exactly like in this Forum.. Bold, Italic etc..

Thanks.

Jen

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:36 am
by vigge89
before showing the threads and replies, the post goes trough a "format"-function, which changes bbcode into the HTML. you could just use [php_man]str_replace[/php_man], but also [php_man]preg_replace[/php_man] using regexp patterns...

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:26 pm
by tim
couldnt have said it better myself.

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:42 pm
by tim
on second thought

I remember a post and the guy wanted to do exactly what u wanted, the code and how-tos was on it

search for it if all else fails here.

BBCODE

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:40 pm
by phppick
Hi

ANYBODY CAN TELL ME HOW TO USE THIS BBCODE( this Textarea part with Bold and Italic options) Which we use for Posting Replies/Newpost..

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:47 am
by vigge89
i already posted how...

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:07 am
by patrikG
alternatively, you can use a ubb function on phpclasses.org - it's somewhat buggy and not tremendously effective, but you will get the idea from what is necessary and how to implement it.

Just search for ubb on phpclasses.org.