Posted by alex on 05/24/05 11:45

Thanks for the help, I never thought about using those functions - I'm used
to using them only for form validation and stopping bad characters.

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> alex wrote:
> > Hi, I want people to be able to cut and paste information into a
textarea
> > whitespace, which can be stored in a mysql database.
> > Please could anyone tell me the best way to convert the new lines and
spaces
> > into HTML so it can be viewed like it was originally in word.
>
> nl2br() www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php
> htmlspecialchars() www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php
> str_replace() www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
>
>
$newstring=nl2br(str_replace("\t","&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp
;&nbsp;",htmlspecialchars($string)));
>
>
> > Also - would it be possible for people to upload word documents and be
able
> > to search the contents of the word documents in the database?
>
> Yes, it will be possible, just make the column to a blob, as microsoft
word
> does store a lot of junk data (if you want smaller documents in word
format,
> then save it with openoffice as it will remove inrelevant data from the
> document in question). Search can be preformed as with a plain varchr
column.
>
>
> //Aho

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