Posted by J.O. Aho on 05/29/06 22:18

Tommy DN wrote:
> I just wanted to make something that creates html-code which should be
> inserted in a mysql database.
>
> The user should type text in a textarea. When the user submits the data,
> all enters should be translated into "<br>" and it would be nice if the
> user could also insert links ( "<a href="..." ) in the formular.

new line to <br> is easily done with nl2br()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

For urls you will most likely need to make your own function that uses regexp,
there are a number of functions you can use to transform a web-address into a
anchor.
http://www.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=regexp&lang=en



//Aho

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