Classified ads app

alleepally

Hi all,

I bought a package called webscribble and I'm using it to put classified ads on my website (wicklow.com)

I've managed to make a few mods to the software to display a hit counter for each ad and also a website link for each ad but if you take a look at the webscribble site

http://www.webscribble.com/products/webclassifieds/demo/browse.shtml

The ad description is all one long string of text. When you enter an ad, you can press return for a line break but this is not displayed. I think this is to do with stripslashes but can anyone tell me is there a way to allow the ad description to have some simple html in there to make the ads a bit less cramped...

Here are the lines from the source code that display the ad description

$ad_description = censorBadWords(stripslashes($fAd[description]));
$ad_description = wordwrap($ad_description, 70, "<br>\n", 1);

Thanks

Al.

Merrion

I think that unless the resulting code is going in to a <PRE> block carriage returns are just considered whitespace. Can you explicitly put a <BR> in the advert text?

blorg

You need to replace carriage returns/line feeds (ASCII 13/10 respectively) with <BR> when doing the output. As Merrion says, carriage returns are ignored whitespace in HTML.

alleepally

I tried putting <BR> when I enter the ad text but it's the same.

I don't have enough knowledge to do much more, I thought it might something simple I could just change on those two lines.

Thanks anyway guys.