i'm just add Tobias script. put "rtrim" and "ltrim" to have a better result. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias Franzén" <lists.zxinn@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 10:24 PM Subject: Re: 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 > > 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@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:21 AM > > To: VanBuskirk, Patricia > > Cc: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: 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. > > > >> > >> > > 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. > > > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
