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[PHP-DB] Formatting in Text Area

VanBuskirk, Patricia

2008-02-01, 7:10 pm

Sorry, I had sent this first to my FileMaker list, but then realized it
was probably more html/php related than database related. FMP is for
FileMaker Pro.

Can you give me an example of your suggestion? I am still quite new at
php and learn much better by example.

Thanks Evert!

Trish

-----Original Message-----
From: Evert Lammerts [mailto:evert.lammerts@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:21 AM
To: VanBuskirk, Patricia
Cc: php-db@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Formatting in Text Area

VanBuskirk, Patricia wrote:
> I have a "customer description" text area field on my form which feeds
through php to FMP,
What's FMP? Is that what links this email to the db-list?
> and spits out a confirmation page and email. The issue I am having
is this ... as the customer types, the text wraps. Many put their own
hard returns and spaces in to organize their description. It seems I
can't get it to do both the wrap and show the actual formatting entered.
If I format the field as physical wrap, the lines run off the page on
the confirmation/printout. If I format it as virtual, then the hard
returns, etc get lost. I have also tried using <PRE> on the
confirmation page and email and that doesn't work either.
> =20
Line wrapping in a text area is a property of the text area, not of the=20
text, as opposite to line breaks and hard returns. This is why you won't

find line break characters at the place the text used to wrap in the=20
text area.

What you can do of course is to add a div (or whatever container you=20
feel like) of the same width / height as the text area to the=20
confirmation page and replace \l\r with br 's.

Bastien Koert

2008-02-01, 7:10 pm

$text = nl2br($text);

bastien
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:07:17 -0500> From: pvanbuskirk@otc.fsu.edu> To: php-db@lists.php.net> Subject: [PHP-DB] Formatting in Text Area> > I have a"customer description" text area field on my form which feeds through php to FMP, and spits out a confirmation page and email. The issue I am having is this ... as the customer types, the text wraps. Many put their own hard returns and spaces in to organize their description. It seems I can't get it to do both the wrap and show the actual formatting entered. If I format the field as physical wrap, the lines run off the page on the confirmation/printout. If I format it as virtual, then the hard returns, etc get lost. I have also tried using <PRE> on the confirmation page and email and that doesn't work either.> > Hmmm... scratching head!> > Trish> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Tobias Franzén

2008-02-01, 7:10 pm

Hi Patricia,

You can impose width restrictions on the textarea field and forcefully
wrap lines longer than the desired length afterwards (if you save it,
save it as-is for better portability). To wrap text with PHP when you
print it, or want to send the e-mail, there is a function called
wordwrap(). Be sure to split the string at every line break though.

Using white-spaces for formating will only work if your output of the
text is with a fixed-width font. The <pre> html tag will do this for
you, but it won't look pretty. Use CSS to style it is my advise.

Something to bear in mind with regards to e-mail is that the "standard"
line width is 72 characters if I remember correctly.

Comparison of fixed-width fonts
http://www.cfcl.com/vlb/h/fontmono.html

Example code (not tested, so I'm not sure it will run as-is):
<?php
$text = $_POST["textareainput"];
$long_lines = split("\n", $text);
$split_text = "";
$width = 72;
foreach ($long_lines as $oneline) {
$split_text = $split_text . wordwrap($oneline, $width, "\n") . "\n";
}
// $split_text will have one more newline at the end than what you
started with, so let's clean it up
$split_text = substr($split_text, 0, -1);
echo "<pre>" . $split_text . "</pre>";
// or
echo nl2br($split_text);
?>

/Tobias

VanBuskirk, Patricia wrote:
> Sorry, I had sent this first to my FileMaker list, but then realized it
> was probably more html/php related than database related. FMP is for
> FileMaker Pro.
>
> Can you give me an example of your suggestion? I am still quite new at
> php and learn much better by example.
>
> Thanks Evert!
>
> Trish
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evert Lammerts [mailto:evert.lammerts@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:21 AM
> To: VanBuskirk, Patricia
> Cc: php-db@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Formatting in Text Area
>
> VanBuskirk, Patricia wrote:
>
> through php to FMP,
> What's FMP? Is that what links this email to the db-list?
>
> is this ... as the customer types, the text wraps. Many put their own
> hard returns and spaces in to organize their description. It seems I
> can't get it to do both the wrap and show the actual formatting entered.
> If I format the field as physical wrap, the lines run off the page on
> the confirmation/printout. If I format it as virtual, then the hard
> returns, etc get lost. I have also tried using <PRE> on the
> confirmation page and email and that doesn't work either.
>
> Line wrapping in a text area is a property of the text area, not of the
> text, as opposite to line breaks and hard returns. This is why you won't
>
> find line break characters at the place the text used to wrap in the
> text area.
>
> What you can do of course is to add a div (or whatever container you
> feel like) of the same width / height as the text area to the
> confirmation page and replace \l\r with br 's.
>
>

bedul

2008-02-02, 4:18 am

i'm just add Tobias script.

put "rtrim" and "ltrim" to have a better result.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias Franzén" <lists.zxinn@otaking.se>
To: <php-db@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Formatting in Text Area

> Hi Patricia,
>
> You can impose width restrictions on the textarea field
and forcefully
> wrap lines longer than the desired length afterwards (if
you save it,
> save it as-is for better portability). To wrap text with
PHP when you
> print it, or want to send the e-mail, there is a function
called
> wordwrap(). Be sure to split the string at every line
break though.
>
> Using white-spaces for formating will only work if your
output of the
> text is with a fixed-width font. The <pre> html tag will
do this for
> you, but it won't look pretty. Use CSS to style it is my
advise.
>
> Something to bear in mind with regards to e-mail is that
the "standard"
> line width is 72 characters if I remember correctly.
>
> Comparison of fixed-width fonts
> http://www.cfcl.com/vlb/h/fontmono.html
>
> Example code (not tested, so I'm not sure it will run
as-is):
> <?php
> $text = $_POST["textareainput"];
> $long_lines = split("\n", $text);
> $split_text = "";
> $width = 72;
> foreach ($long_lines as $oneline) {
> $split_text = $split_text . wordwrap($oneline, $width,
"\n") . "\n";
> }
> // $split_text will have one more newline at the end than
what you
> started with, so let's clean it up
> $split_text = substr($split_text, 0, -1);
> echo "<pre>" . $split_text . "</pre>";
> // or
> echo nl2br($split_text);
> ?>
>
> /Tobias
>
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