help please, displaying content problem

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mustafaneguib 1 Junior Poster in Training

15 Years Ago

<html>
<head><title>Write a New Article</title></head>

<body>
<?php

session_start();


$connect=mysql_connect("localhost", "worldofp_mussy", "mustafa");

mysql_select_db("worldofp_blog1")
      or die(mysql_error());
	  
	  
  $get="SELECT user_id, user_name 
       FROM user 
	   WHERE user_name = '" . $_SESSION['username'] . "'
        ORDER BY user_id";	   
	   
	  	   
	   $results=mysql_query($get)
	     or die(mysql_error());



		 
$row=mysql_fetch_array($results);

 



	$insert="INSERT INTO article( article_name, article_content, 
          user) 
		 [B]VALUES 
		 ( '<h4>" . $_POST['articlename'] .  "</h4>',
		  '<pre>". $_POST['articlecontent'] ."</pre>',
		  '" . $row['user_id'] . "')";[/B]
		  
$results=mysql_query($insert)
       or die(mysql_error());

echo "Congratulations you have successfully entered the article.";
echo "Please click the following link to continue: <br />";
echo "<a href='index.php?log=1' title='Home Page'>continue</a>";

		
		


?>

</body>
</html>

hey guys, i have come to a dead end now. when i display the article the content exceeds the width of the div element. how do i tell the form to produce a new line when ever the the user goes on a new line in the text box form?

i have bolded the part where i am telling the program to produce the article content in a pre code.

an example is in the link

http://www.worldofpakistan.net/blog1/displayart.php?art=1&&log=0

the width of the div should be 500 px, and the corners are supposed to be rounded.

php

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ShawnCplus 456 Code Monkey

15 Years Ago

The function is called nl2br That will turn all newlines into HTML linebreaks.

Example:

$Input = "Testing
This is on a new line";
echo nl2br($Input);

Output

Testing<br />
This is on a new line

ShawnCplus 456 Code Monkey

15 Years Ago

Don't format their input when they enter it. Format it on output. And since you aren't showing the html/css of where it's getting displayed I can't help you fix that part.

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icorey -6 Newbie Poster · Answer 1 · 2008-06-20T03:51:50+00:00

you shouldn't need to. HTML will take care of wrapping text.

whoops, i just looked at the page you linked to. get rid of the <pre> tags...if you the content to appear just as it was entered, you'll need to replace the CRLFs (\r\n) with <br/>s.
...I think

mustafaneguib 1 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 2 · 2008-06-20T03:56:49+00:00

its notworking. i even have removed the <pre></pre> tags. if the user does not press enter every line then this problem happens.

mustafaneguib 1 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 3 · 2008-06-20T05:38:57+00:00

this is the file that prints the output.
do i have to do anything to the form because it is just sending all the data as in one line.
i have removed the formating from the input.

<?php

session_start();
$_SESSION['authuser']=$_SESSION['authuser1'];
?>

<!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">


<head><title>MN Tech Solutions Blog Software</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keyword" content="" />
<meta name="description" content=" " />
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" />


<script type="text/javascript" src="nifty.js"></script> 

<!--Software House: MN Tech Solutions-->
<!--Designer/Programmer: Mustafa Neguib-->
<!--Date Project Started: 17th June 2008-->

<?php
include 'browsercheck.php';
?>


<style type="text/css">
<!--



-->
</style>


</head>

<body>

<div id="div1">
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=function(){
if(!NiftyCheck())
    return;
Rounded("div#first","#EFF6F9","#9BD1FA");
Rounded("div#second","#EFF6F9","#9BD1FA"); 
Rounded("div#third","#EFF6F9","#9BD1FA"); 
}
</script> 

<div id="div2">

<div id="div8">
<img src="logo.jpg" title="Banner" alt="Banner" />
</div>

</div>

<div id="div3">

<div id="main">
<?php


if($_SESSION['authuser']==0)
{


echo "<ul>";
echo "<li><a href='index.php' title='Home Page'>Home Page</a></li>";
echo "<li><a href='show.php' title='Read an Article'>Read an Article</a></li>";
echo "<li><a href='register.php' title='Register'>Register</a></li>";
echo "<li><a href='login.php' title='Login'>Login</a></li>";
echo "<li><a href='sitemap.php' title='Site Map'>Site Map</a></li>";
echo "</ul>";
 }

else 
{
echo "<ul>";
echo "<li><a href='index.php' title='Home Page'>Home Page</a></li>";
echo "<li><a href='show.php' title='Read an Article'>Read an Article</a></li>";
echo "<li><a href='controlpanel.php' title='User Control Panel'>User Control Panel</a></li>";
echo "<li><a href='writearticle.php' title='Write a New Article'>Write a New Article</a></li>";
echo "<li><a href='logout.php' title='Log Out'>Log Out</a></li>";
echo "</ul>";
}
?>

</div>

</div>


<div id="div4">
<div id="first">
<?php

//connect to the database

$create=mysql_query("CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS worldofp_blog1")
                      or die(mysql_error());
					  
mysql_select_db("worldofp_blog1")
  or die(mysql_error());


$getuser="SELECT user_id, user_name, user
         FROM user
		 LEFT JOIN article
		 ON user=user_id
		 WHERE article_id= '" . $_REQUEST['art'] . "'	
		 ORDER BY user_id;";
		 
		 $results=mysql_query($getuser)
		          or die(mysql_error());
				  
				  
				  
				  $row=mysql_fetch_array($results);
				  
			

$getarticle="SELECT article_name, article_id,article_content
            FROM article
            WHERE  article_id= '" . $_REQUEST['art'] . "'	
			ORDER BY article_id";

$result=mysql_query($getarticle)
    or die(mysql_error());


$rows=mysql_fetch_array($result);


echo "Subject: " . $rows['article_name'];

echo "User:  ";
echo $row['user_name'] ."<br />";

echo "Article Content: ";
echo  nl2br(htmlspecialchars($rows['article_content']));

  
?>
</div>
</div>

<div id="div7">

<?php include'copyright.html';?>

</div>

</div>

</body>
</html>

ShawnCplus 456 Code Monkey Team Colleague · Answer 4 · 2008-06-21T04:40:54+00:00

If nl2br isn't working for you the wordwrap function might

mustafaneguib 1 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 5 · 2008-06-21T14:25:27+00:00

mustafaneguib 1 Junior Poster in Training

15 Years Ago

at last the word wrap worked.

thanks to all who helped.

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