Styling Text submitted with CMS

Question

Hi
I am designing a website with CMS for a local church.
Could anyone help me with controlling the appearance of text
submitted to the database using the record insert wizard. My
primary problem is that any text submitted to the database does not
display in the website with paragraph breaks intact.
I can think of 2 solutions. The first would be to include
wysiwyg editor - I do not want to do this as I do not want the end
user to have any control of any other aspects of appearance just as
bold, italic etc. The 2nd would be to instruct my customer to
include the <p> at the end of the para - I don't want to do
this because I think it makes the CMS look a lot less polished and
because my customer is a 60 year old lady who is already very
frightened of computers, I think having to write code would push
her over the edge.
Can anyone suggest a way that para breaks are included
without user intervention
Thanks

Answer 1

jeffoirecoupe1234 wrote:
> I am building it myself.
>
> It is my first cms so I am probably doing something
really basic wrong.
>
> The database is very simple, there is more than one
table but none of them are
> relational.
>
> Each page has one its own database table containing 3
fields, a header, a
> subheader and some bodycopy.
>
> The pages retrieve the info using a dreamweaver
recordset.
>
> I have a separate page for uploading info to the
database. Just a simple form
> with 3 fields.
>
> Everything is working perfectly. The form pages accept
the info and it
> displays on the website - so I think I have understood
everything and done it
> correctly - except for the para breaks
>
>
>
>
try this:
<?php
function nl2html($text) {
$pattern = array('#\r\n?#', '#\n\n+#', '#\n#');
$replace = array("\n", '</p><p>', '<br>');
$ftext= preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $text);
return $ftext;
?>
<div id="mainContent">
<h1 class="newsheadline"><?php echo
$row_rsBeliefs['beliefsHeader'];
?></h1>
<p class="newssubhead"><?php echo
$row_rsBeliefs['beliefsSubheader'];
?></p>
<p><?php
$ftext=nl2html($row_rsBeliefs['beliefsBodycopy']); echo $ftext;
?></p>
</div>
Note that this code implies that you do not temper with the
texteare outup but store is raw to the
database.
If this does not work, please post your code again
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