Outputting text - PHP/Mysql

[fluiduk]

Hi All

I have nearly finished a new db driven site and the only snagging point I am having at the moment is formatting text that is ouput from the DB

at the moment I have this bit of code to output the text and retain the line breaks

<?php 
$text = nl2br($row_recBlueskyArticle['article_content']); echo $text; ?>

However I need to be able to use <b> or <strong> tags when entering the data into the database.

What is the best way to do this, I was thinking perhaps text replacement, that replace line breaks with <br/> and <b> with a css class

Any ideas
Thanks
Aaron

 

[Sic]

have a look at str_replace(). seems to do what you want

 

[shine]

Upu can use htmlspecialchars to do that:

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php