Formatting and storing text?

[Northern Monkey]

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Ok,

So I have a php written site where someone can enter text into a textarea field..

... but when I want to display it again obviously all the newlines etc have been stripped out and the users can't change the colour or make the text bold....can anyone help??

Again the users writing the text want an easy to use interface (sorry to say but a bit like hotmail) and I don't want the fancy things

[morleymouse]

well the line breaks are easy, just do a string replace and replace "\n" with "<br>"

making it bold etc is a bit more tricky without doing like [ b] [ /b] to tell the script. if anyone has an easy solution id be keen to hear as I use these in various places too.

Maybe a bit of javascript that where you can highlight a bit of text in the box and click a B and it goes bold, or just puts <b> </b> round it or something...

[Northern Monkey]

Thanks Morley,

At least their text will be on the right lines!

NM.