content management system and displaying text on pages

[jhonnatas]

hello again!well...I'm developing a Content Management System and I have a form where the user write a text then i'll store this text in my database and i'll write it on a page using the "echo",I store the text with the html tags like: <p> blablabla</p>.but the user doesn't know html!can i add a special text field that replace the normal charachters into html characters?i mean,user will write normally but the textfield will add the html tags in the text! thanks in advance!

[Philip435]

Hi! If i understand your problem right this link tell you when you need :D

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

[jhonnatas]

hi philip435 thanks for the asnwer!well.. i think there are some text editors that may do that!i want u to recomend me one! can u do that? is there any text editor that do that?

[Philip435]

tinymce is easy to us, strongly recommend it!

[jhonnatas]

yes! i heard about tinymce but never texted it! i want to know if i type:
blablablabla
blablabalbal

it will convert into:
blablablabla</br>
blablabalbal</br>

replacing automaticly the "enter" into </br> tag!
then i can save it on database
and when i retrive it i have already the formatted text! thanks!!

[Philip435]

Well that kinda how tinymce works try out some examples like this one
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/example_11.php

[jhonnatas]

ohh man thanks a lot!!!!it works!