Hold carriage returns in PHP MySQL database?

Question

I'm creating a limited news database for a not-for-profit
site and I want to let admin users write a long entry which may
include multiple paragraphs (i.e. carriage returns) and even bold
text for subheadings would be nice. I haven't been able to find out
the proper code and DB settings to allow users to do this.
Anyone have a simple solution?

Answer 1

The way I handle text formatting with dynamic data is to
carefully construct
your DB with formatting in mind
Create separate fields for headlines and copy. When you call
the data to
your web page surround the heading with the desired tag. Of
course you will
not always have a heading, so, to eliminate empty spaces add
a conditional
statement to ignore the field if it is null.
like this:
database:
news_id
news_headline1
news_copy1
news_headline2
news_copy2
web page:
<?php if (strlen($row_getNews['news_headline1']) > 0)
{?>
<h3><?php echo $row_getNews['news_headline1'];
?></h3>
<?php }?>
<p><?php echo $row_getNews['news_copy1'];
?></p>
<?php if (strlen($row_getNews['news_headline2']) > 0)
{?>
<h3><?php echo $row_getNews['news_headline2];
?></h3>
<?php }?>
<?php if (strlen($row_getNews['news_copy2']) > 0)
{?>
<p><?php echo $row_getNews['news_copy2'];
?></p>
<?php }?>
Jeff
"Justin from Indiana" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
news:fiimo4$33$[email protected]..
> I'm creating a limited news database for a
not-for-profit site and I want
> to
> let admin users write a long entry which may include
multiple paragraphs
> (i.e.
> carriage returns) and even bold text for subheadings
would be nice. I
> haven't
> been able to find out the proper code and DB settings to
allow users to do
> this.
>
> Anyone have a simple solution?
>