No, that worked well. I kept the bbcode tags and outputted to pre and it allows me to see the correct formatting I was after (after I copy and paste a row into the VB editor and preview it.

Thanks, i'll tinker around about more with the formatting and then start joy of updating the posts table.

--------------- Added [DATE]1347608664[/DATE] at [TIME]1347608664[/TIME] ---------------

OK, ran a test update and it *nearly* went perfectly.

What I missed is that the current contents of post.pagetext needs to remain, ideally after I add more formatted string.


So I need to insert $recipe into the begining of post.pagetext. Is there an SQL command like that, or should I read it into the array using some funkly JOIN thing (that I still haven't worked out) ?

--------------- Added [DATE]1347625652[/DATE] at [TIME]1347625652[/TIME] ---------------

Ok, managed to sort that out so it doesn't overwrite the existing data in pagetext.

All I need to do now is find a way to add a space or something when a field is empty so the formatting doesn't screw up and I'm laughing.

Is there an easy way to read all the fields in the current $recipe row and insert a space if the field is empty? Or does it need to be a check of each field ?

Ended up install a plugin that lets you use [ NBSP] BBCode to insert a nbsp; A bit over the top but it worked.

Sorry, I missed your other questions because of the auto merge thing. But I think adding a bbcode was probably the only way to that.

That auto-merge is annoying.

All converted now. Thanks for you help.

Could you post your updated/final code singabaloo?