PHP/MySQL - Formatting parapgraphs

MagSafe

MagSafe

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Hi :)

...Having a bit of hascel with formatting paragraphs here in a content management system. I have an edit page area which requests the content from a database and puts it inside a textarea for a user to edit, but its coming up as normal html instead of the paragraphs being spaced out.

What I'm using is:

Code: 
	//Convert Windows (\r\n) to Unix (\n)
	$PageContent = ereg_replace("\r\n", "\n", $PageContent);
	// Convert Macintosh (\r) to Unix (\n)
	$PageContent = ereg_replace("\r", "\n", $PageContent);
	// Handle paragraphs
	$PageContent = ereg_replace("\n\n", '</p><p>', $PageContent);
	// Handle line breaks
	$PageContent = ereg_replace("\n", '<br />', $PageContent);

which I have got for taking the data out of the database and correctly converting it into html for viewing on a normal page, but I'm trying to reverse it so that when it's taken out of the database instead of showing the html it puts the data as normal, editable paragraphs.

I tried simply switching "\r\n" with "\n" around and the rest of them and that sort of works but instead of having 1 line between each paragraph theres 5.

Is there anything else I can do?
 
I can't see why you need to do anything with it. If it's stored in the DB with linebreaks between 'paragraphs', when you pull it out of the DB and place it in the <textarea> the original linebreaks and formatting will remain.

For decent line-break to paragraphs conversion, check out autop (as used in Wordpress).
 
I thought that as well... but if I use it like the code appears in my first post it will return the data like below in the <textarea>

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That's understandable because if you look at the code it's telling the data to change from \n\n to </p><p>, so to solve this I tried turning the contents of the swap (\n\n & </p><p> around it sort of works except instead of having 1 line between parapragh it puts in 5.
 
Store it in the database as:

Code: 
Foo foo foo foo, foo.

Bar bar foo bar foo.

On display, convert that to (using autop):

Code: 
<p>Foo foo foo foo, foo.</p>

<p>Bar bar foo bar foo.</p>

And then when you edit it you don't have to do anything. The newlines will display as newlines in the textarea.
 
I tried using autop ($PageContent = autop($PageContent);) but it came back saying Fatal error: Call to undefined function: autop()
 
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