[Elektronaut]

hey...

for my site im making a news and a guestbook script, and everything works just fine, except for one thing:

when i type a news message or a guestbook message, and i try to make it look neat by pressing enter between alineas, it comes out as one big long tekst without any layout... i know i can just press some <br> into my news mssg, but for a guestbook its a bit odd to ask the people to type <br> everytime they want to make a new alinea...

i hope some of you know what to do to help with this problem

thx in advance

[cmonkey]

use the nl2br() function on the submitted string, that will replace all newline characters entered in the textbox to the html <br> tag.

for more info visit php.net

[mikaelf]

you may also write your own text parser like this:

PHP Code:

//Carriage line feed

$crLf = '\r\n';



//Function: normalizeString, to avoid text flooding

    function normalizeString ($text, $divider = '') {

        if($divider = '' || !is_int($divider))

            $divider = 60;

        $arrayText = explode(' ',$text);

        for($i=0; $i<count($arrayText); $i++) {

            if(($arrLen = strlen($arrayText[$i])) > $divider) { //set max string length into divider

                if($arrLen > 0) {

                    $totElement = ceil($arrLen / $divider);                

                    for($j=0; $j<$totElement; $j++) {

                        $pos = $j*$divider;

                        $returned .= substr($arrayText[$i],$pos,$divider).' ';

                    }

                }

            }

            else {

                $returned .= $arrayText[$i].' ';

            }

        }

        unset($arrayText);

        return $returned;

    }



//Assume you have variable $_POST['newsBody'] where the text resides



//Normalize all data first

$myText = normalizeString($_POST['newsBody'],70);

$myText = preg_replace($crLf,'<br />',$myText);



print $myText;



?> 

Wish this helps