I've managed to make a simple dynamic News Page using PhP and MySQL in Dreamweaver Ultra Dev (with the PHAkt extension).

All works great, and I've even made a webbased control panel (using forms) for people to add, update or delete News items over the web! This also works great.

However, when inserting the text for the news item - how do i keep the text "format"?

For example, entering this in my news form:

"This is a sample to show you what i mean.

If I do this it doesn't work!"

...ends up looking like this:

"This is a sample to show you what i mean.If I do this it doesn't work!"

How can I get round this?

Cheers

Oli

There are some built-in tools, called Server Formats that help you with this. These are special formatting options, specifically for Dynamic elements that allow you to control formatting etc.

The Server Formats in the current PHAkT distribution comprise my contribution to PHAkT and are very easy to implement.

To use these commands when you drag your Database Column from the DataSources floater over to your page, the relevant column is highlighted in the DataSources floater when you select the element on the page.

If you now look to the right of the column in the DataSources floater you will see that there is a drop-down menu with plenty of options.

If you go to the Strings menu, Formatting and select 'Convert \n to < BR >' this will convert all newline characters stored in your database to the HTML < BR > tag, and therefore preserve your formatting.

Hope this helps <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Tim Green

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Thanks for that! That was just the ticket <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>