Pulling formatted text out of MySQL 1

[mufka]

I think this issue is PHP or HTML related so I'm posting it here and not at MySQL.

I have formatted text in a MySQL field. To start with the format is just paragraphs. I need to display the text in its paragraph form in PHP. I've tried using <PRE> and that separates the paragraphs, but it doesn't format them to fit on a page. By that I mean that each paragraph is printed on one long line. If I use <BLOCKQOUTE> it fits it to a page but it doesn't separate the paragraphs.

Ultimately, I'll want to store and retrieve text formatted with font and bold, etc.

 

[mufka]

I always make progress right after posting a question.

I got the text to come out formatted in paragraphs using nl2br().

Now I'd like to see if I can input and then display formatted text with sections of bold, centering, italics, etc. Help on that would be appreciated.

 

[jpadie]

consider using a wysisyg plugin like tinymce.

 

[mufka]

That works perfectly. Exactly what I needed.