Tecumseh Group Markup Language

[styleBunny]

Hi guys,

I am looking for a way, to allow users some basic formatting options for the text the enter in a form text area. Something similar to the way tek-tips lets you use their Tecumseh Group Markup Language, to format text, add links etc...

Do these types of functions exist within php already? or is there something i can install on the server? or a java applet that sits a top the text area with a word-esque tool bar?

I am interested in all your 2 cents, wax away!
sb.

 

[ChrisHirst]

build couple of arrays of markup code and replace code
then you can loop through the array with a str_replace()

similar to the 3rd example here



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[DRJ478]

PHP has no specific formatting functions. As ChrisHirst suggested string manipulation is the most common way these proprietary tags are replaced by standard HTML.

You can use str_replace but also work with regular expressions (which are a little more advanced, but more fun).

As for the Java question:
There is client side code in JavaScript that allows "rich text editing", where an <iframe> element is dynamically generated and put into edit mode. It then allows (with the appropriate JavaScript) word-esque text editing. There are some examples on the Web, such as

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~pault/rtwedit/

This, however, has nothing to do with PHP and depends on a modern browser that supports DOM manipulation.

 

[jpadie]

a brief google also turns up this link:

http://elouai.com/bbcode-sample.php

the author has kindly published a bbcode to html converter for all to use.

 

[styleBunny]

Hi peoples,

Thanks for the feed back, i also found this tutorial at site point, i havent read it yet, but it could be the goods.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/bb-code-php-application

thanks again, I shall investigate these links asap!
SB.