Adding Product Descriptions with formatting

[diyroberts]

Hi folks,

 

When I'm adding a product to my website I may format the paragraphs (i.e leave lines in the text), but when I upload the product I loose all formatting

 

I know why this happens but is there any way to stop this?? Is there any way of having a WYSIWYG box?

 

 

Thanks in advance

Will

[peter222]

install a html_editor contribution like tinyMCE ;)

[MrPhil]

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=345148

[diyroberts]

OK, many thanks guys

[diyroberts]

Also...If I added a WYSIWYG editor now, would the products that have already been entered have formatting?? If not, is there a way to do this??

 

Thanks

Will

[MrPhil]

No, already existing entries are in the database and would not be affected. One way to update these entries would be to manually edit each one. Another, if there are a huge number of them, would be to write some custom PHP/MySQL code to extract product descriptions, look for line-ends (carriage returns, or whatever way they're stored in the database), add <br> at that point, and save them back into the database. A big job either way, I'm afraid.

[diyroberts]

No, already existing entries are in the database and would not be affected. One way to update these entries would be to manually edit each one. Another, if there are a huge number of them, would be to write some custom PHP/MySQL code to extract product descriptions, look for line-ends (carriage returns, or whatever way they're stored in the database), add <br> at that point, and save them back into the database. A big job either way, I'm afraid.

 

OK, many thanks for your help