Changing contents of textarea

[Geoff Berrow]

I have a textarea on a form whose value is stored in a database. I want to
display the contents as an unordered list. At the moment I am using * to
start the line and ; to end the line in the textarea and then replacing
these characters like so:

<ul>
<?php
$features=$myro w["features"];
$search = array("*", ";");
$replace =array("\t\t<li >", "</li>\n");
$list=str_repla ce($search,$rep lace,$features) ;
print "$list";
?>
</ul>

Is it possible to do this without the extra characters, say by just putting
the list items on separate lines in the textarea?
--
Geoff Berrow

[Jon Kraft]

Re: Changing contents of textarea

Geoff Berrow <$bl$@ckdog.co. uk> wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have a textarea on a form whose value is stored in a database. I want
> to
> display the contents as an unordered list. At the moment I am using * to
> start the line and ; to end the line in the textarea and then replacing
> these characters like so:
>
> <ul>
> <?php
> $features=$myro w["features"];
> $search = array("*", ";");
> $replace =array("\t\t<li >", "</li>\n");
> $list=str_repla ce($search,$rep lace,$features) ;
> print "$list";
> ?>
> </ul>
>
> Is it possible to do this without the extra characters, say by just
> putting the list items on separate lines in the textarea?[/color]

Hi Geoff,

Yes:

<ul>
<?php
$features = $myrow["features"];
$search = "\n";
$replace = "</li>\n\t\t<li>";
$list = str_replace($se arch,$replace,$ features);
print "<li>".$lis t."</li>";
?>
</ul>

HTH;
JOn