[php] Converting Content of Text area as HTML

[glennda]

I have a form that is submitting for the noticeboard I have made - Edu-it has pointed out it doesn't do lines very well! as the text area is submitting to the database as simple text. Is there a way I can convert the text from the text area into HTML before submitting to the database?

 

Or even as it echos the content of the database convert the text into HTML?

 

Toby

[webman]

PHP function nl2br will convert new lines in plain text to

HTML tags

[glennda]

Webman to the rescue. Cheers. - also what can i use to convert the text which has http:// infront - I'm guessing it needs some processing to covert the link address to html?

[webman]

Use a regular expression

 

$text = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@', '$1', $text);

 

Source: http://snipplr.com/view/2371/regex-regular-expression-to-match-a-url/

[glennda]

Thank you!

[glennda]

Do you know a way to change it for if staff just post Google rather then Google

 

I tried

 

$text = preg_replace('@(wwww([.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@', '$1', $text);

 

But that didn't quite work!