Website description help

[vnevermore]

As you can see here, even if paste on the description code/text with more than one line,
http://prntscr.com/d6ouwq
when i save it, it becomes a huge paragraph with 1 line, which makes it kinda ungly if you ask me.
http://prntscr.com/d6ovf0

I know it can make problem on the design on the index but i will handle this problem with CSS.
I think the problem is on the way that is stored on the database.

I've made a research over forum, i don't wanna use second description.
I didn't found something about this, but still i ve seen some visiolist toplists having this feature working.

Any help or idea?

 

[legendz]

Wonder if you can use HTML, like <p> before and </p> after each sentence?

 

[vnevermore]

the whole description is on a paragraph like:

<p>{$description}</p>

... i will need to force user's to put it like this...
otherwise i will need to edit some core-script i guess to replace line separator with a </br> for example

 

[cajkan]

Hello there I think you can use this plugin and customize it a bit:
http://visiolist.com/community/resources/long-description-bbcode.21/

 

[vnevermore]

this plugin makes a second description, which actually is not what i was looking for
looking into the source's i found out that all \r\n are replaced with a space line ' '.
removing this replacement would give me another problems, i will have to use nl2br() function when the data comes from the database to display
however, still no luck to make it work proper

 

[vnevermore]

Okey i fixed it somehow,
talking about the edit.php file for example

I started removing completely the line

$description_prepare = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), ' ', $FORM['description']);

then i removed $DB->escape() function when data is parsed from the FORM to $TMPL['category'] var
and then i replaced a few lines above

$TMPL['description'] = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9 .,\-]/', '', $TMPL['description']);

with

$TMPL['description'] = preg_replace('/([^A-Za-z0-9 .,\-\r\n\t])+/', '', $TMPL['description']);

which actually allows also tab spases,new lines etc to be saved on the database

and finally to display the results on the html page i used white-space: pre on the css to force html represen break lines

@Mark , @Basti
you think what i ve done is okey, or it can cause any problem? i am afraid just for the removal of the $DB->escape() function.
and also i would like to point out, that maybe it was unnecessary on this part of code, since you preg_replace the symbols etc , 2 times

well, i mean what escape does is already done by preg_replace, or i am wrong?
thanks for your time anyway

 

[Mark]

There was an issue with the escape function, that extra preg_replace() function was really just a temp security fix. Basti had made some changes that I did not roll into 1.5 release, I suspect this is one of them.

You should be safe with your edit, though finding a way to handle this via plugin would be the best solution so you dont need to apply this change after each update.

 

[vnevermore]

There was an issue with the escape function, that extra preg_replace() function was really just a temp security fix. Basti had made some changes that I did not roll into 1.5 release, I suspect this is one of them.

You should be safe with your edit, though finding a way to handle this via plugin would be the best solution so you dont need to apply this change after each update.

yes you are right, still i am not very familiar with the plugin system but i am planing starting work with it..
wherever i edit the source's i put a comment, so searching a specific word will give me back all edited code places , but yes this means i will have to re-install 1.6 and parse all changes again :/