[thelist] displaying character entities in textareas
Kae Verens
kverens at contactjuggling.org
Wed Nov 12 03:52:56 CST 2003
Jason Handby wrote:
>>I don't have a solution to your problem, but a suggestion... Instead of
>>using a text filter to change *foo* into <strong>foo</strong> have you
>>considered using Textile, the 'humane web text generator'?
>>
>> <http://textism.com/tools/textile/>
>>
>>There are versions written in PHP, Perl, Python, and even ASP... I found
>>it very easy to use the Perl version written by Brad Choate into a
>>simple CMS I wrote...
>>
>>
The textism one is similar to how I was handling formats previously, but
that htmlarea one is bloody fantastic! I hope the author accepts
patches, though, as the HTML produced is archaic.
Thanks everyone,
Kae
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