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SoLi
post 13 Dec, 2002 - 05:40 PM
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okay on this ocean website (http://www.dusty.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ocean/index.html) users can submit their own stories. they do this by entering their story into a text area. once, submitted the data is written to a text file. later on this story will need to be called up when other people want to view it, and it will be displayed on a html page.

now. is it possible, using php, for when the story is submitted, php scans the data and replaces any line gaps (indicating paragraphs) with the <p> tag? if so how. smile.gif

so for example. a user submits the following in the text area

"this is my story

this is the end of my story"

and then php needs to turn it into:

"this is my story<p>this is the end of my story"

after that it gets written to a text file, but thats one thing i do know how to do lol smile.gif

thx
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Amadeus
post 14 Dec, 2002 - 12:13 AM
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I'm not sure what the PHP function is for it, but it would something similar to Replace(string,substring).
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post 14 Dec, 2002 - 12:18 AM
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QUOTE(Amadeus @ Dec 14 2002, 04:13 AM)
I'm not sure what the PHP function is for it, but it would something similar to Replace(string,substring).

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str_replace, apparently.

check out the usage here.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/mail/php-general...001102/1386.php
If that does not work, there's a thousand ways to go at the problem, from html.encode to user functions. Let me know the specific problem, and I will try to help.
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klewlis
post 14 Dec, 2002 - 08:18 AM
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please oh please oh please put </p>'s on there too!
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MathewS
post 16 Dec, 2002 - 08:15 AM
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i think you want something like
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$text = str_replace ("\n", "<p>", $text);
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SoLi
post 16 Dec, 2002 - 08:50 AM
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thx that sort of worked but it entered a <p> every time a new line was entered, rather than every time there is an empty line.

so what u told me did this:

Line of text one
<P>Line of text two
<P> <<Gap indicating end of paragraph.
<P>Line of text three
<P>Line of text four

where as what i want is

Line of text one
Line of text two
<p> <gap indicating end of paragraph.
Line of text three
Line of text four.

although technically what has happened (with p's on every line) wont actually make a difference (because two consecutive Ps dont work, only the first will) it'd be nice just to see if its actually possible to get it how i want in the second example. can i not make php search my string for lines where no characters are present, and only enter the <p>'s on those lines?

thx alot everyone for the info so far. really appreciate it smile.gif
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post 16 Dec, 2002 - 12:25 PM
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did you try
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$text = str_replace ("\n\n", "<p>", $text);


which should check if they have two lines?
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SoLi
post 16 Dec, 2002 - 02:18 PM
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good idea but doesnt work. when using \n\n none of the <p> tags get inserted :S
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gneato
post 16 Dec, 2002 - 03:49 PM
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that might be caused by stupid windows line-break and carriage-returns. In other words just remove all the \r's like this

$text = str_replace ("\r", "", $text);

and then

$text = str_replace ("\n\n", "<p>", $text);


Tell me if that works.
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gneato
post 16 Dec, 2002 - 03:51 PM
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You might also want to do this after you replace all the \n\n's:

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