Formatting Passed Value Within ASP Page In Textarea?

Monie · Nov 12th, 2007, 04:37

Hai..

I have an ASP page that will pass a value to another ASP page. Something like reply PM things where all the message in our PM will be put as [quote] in the reply textarea form.

I manage to get the message to be placed as the default value in my reply form:

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<textarea name="myMessage" size="100" cols="60" rows="8"><%Response.Write(quoteTo)%></textarea>

What I want to do with this value is to format them like making them bold, or put them in a div like the [quote] tag..?

Anybody can help?
Thanks..

alexgeek · Nov 13th, 2007, 18:02

Isn't this kinda CSS and HTML?
You'd just find [quote] and replace is with something like "<div class="quote">" or am I missing something?

robbied72 · Nov 13th, 2007, 21:14

You need to explain this a bit better Monie.

Monie · Nov 14th, 2007, 01:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexgeek

Isn't this kinda CSS and HTML?
You'd just find [quote] and replace is with something like "<div class="quote">" or am I missing something?

This is what I wanted to do Alex!

Ok..! An illustrator might help

When I read someone message, and click the reply button, I manage to put them in my textarea reply form like this one I am replying Alex message! All Alex message will be put in my message textarea as QUOTE and later when Alex read his PM they it will be put DIV to indicate it is a QUOTE message!

So how to do this? I tried to make them bold but when diaplaying the message, it will print the <b> tag with the message! Maybe CSS could help me but I don't know how?

Thanks..

alexgeek · Nov 14th, 2007, 07:10

Well in PHP it would be like:

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$q = str_replace("[quote]", "<div class=\"quote\">from <strong>AlexGeek</strong><div>Original message", $quote);
$q = str_replace("[/quote]", "</div></div>", $q);
echo $q;

Something like that?

robbied72 · Nov 14th, 2007, 09:21

Hi Monie, I have expanded on Alex's PHP example in ASP:

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<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>.:: ASP [quote] replace example ::.</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#quote {
    width: 95%;
    border-top-width: 1px;
    border-right-width: 1px;
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
    border-left-width: 1px;
    border-top-style: solid;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-bottom-style: solid;
    border-left-style: solid;
    border-top-color: #000000;
    border-right-color: #CCCCCC;
    border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;
    border-left-color: #000000;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:0.8em;
    padding:3px;
}
#quote em {
    color:#FF0000;
}
h5 {
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:0.7em;
    color:#000;
    margin-bottom:1px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<%
'-----Data colection and replace---------------------------------
'The values below would be collected dynamically, I have placed 
'them statically for this example.
'----------------------------------------------------------------
dim vQuote, vUser
vUser = "alexgeek"
vQuote = "[quote]This is the original message from Alex![/quote]"
vQuote = Replace(vQuote,"[quote]","<em>")
vQuote = Replace(vQuote,"[/quote]","</em>")
%>
<h5>Quote:</h5>
<div id="quote">
<%
'-----Output Quote------------------------------------------------
Response.Write("Originaly Posted by <b>"&vUser&"</b><br />")
Response.Write(vQuote)
%>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps

robbied72 · Nov 14th, 2007, 09:26

Hi Monie, I have expanded on Alex's PHP example in ASP:

I have attached this in a text file as the code was not displaying properly on the forum as it was displaying quotes as visual quotes if you see what I mean

asp_replace_example.txt

Hope this helps

Monie · Nov 15th, 2007, 01:32

Thanks Alex. Thanks Robbied. This sound promising to me! Another new programming knowledge! Let me try them first and let you guys informed soon

alexgeek · Nov 16th, 2007, 06:55

Thanks Rob, I didn't know of any replace functions in ASP.

robbied72 · Nov 16th, 2007, 08:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexgeek

Thanks Rob, I didn't know of any replace functions in ASP.

Your welcome mate, If you have a look at the following site it will show you many of the functions you can use in ASP:-

http://www.haneng.com/FunctionSearch.asp

Monie · Nov 17th, 2007, 07:16

Thanks robbied for the link.

Monie · Nov 27th, 2007, 08:01

Wow, brilliant code there! If only we have the rep points..

robbied72 · Nov 27th, 2007, 08:32

What has happened to everyones rep points?

Marc · Nov 27th, 2007, 13:52

[SOLVED] What happened to the rep points? - Have a look there Robbie.

robbied72 · Nov 27th, 2007, 13:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marc

[SOLVED] What happened to the rep points? - Have a look there Robbie.

Ah, thanks mate, it all makes sense now

Monie · Nov 27th, 2007, 23:57

I hope there will be a good replacement for this