Embed html or php in a Text Field

[Digital Life]

I have a web site that is presenting data from fields in a Filemaker Database. FM 11 Server. When viewing the text in a browser it does not see the carriage returns. Is there a way to embed some html/php in the field so that the browser will add in carriage returns?

[doughemi]

HTML ignores carriage returns.  Try Substitute(YourWebText; "¶"; "<br />")

[Digital Life]

Thanks but that doesn't work. I've tried PHP tags too and they just show as text. Anyone?

[doughemi]

Why don't you zip a copy of your file with a few sample records and post it?

[Digital Life]

I couldn't find any way from anybody on how to type something into the text field that would be respected by a browser. But I did find a PHP function that does what I need.

 

So the original html/php code was: 

 

<dd><?php echo $record->getField("Field_Name"); ?></dd>

 

The revised code is:

 

<dd><?php echo nl2br($record->getField("Field_Name")); ?></dd>

 

which has the effect of rendering the breaks typed into the Filemaker text field in the browser.

[MartieH]

you can use getFieldUnencoded in your php code to see the text with the html attributes

 

Martie

[doughemi]

Thanks for the feedback.