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Hi there everyone,

The title says it all really. One of my custom fields relates to the pros of a product (another for cons) and currently I’ve got a textarea set to format
so that the inputs display as I need. Users would enter one pro or con per line.

However for semantic purposes, I’d like each line of the list (in the textarea) to correspond with a <li> in the code, all within an <ul>. Any suggestions of how to do this without using a separate custom field for each list item?

Thanks

Some PHP, probably. Use explode() on ‘
’ (or whatever), than loop through the resulting array and output any which way you like.

Or you could enable Textile formatting (or use it on the template) for that textarea. Then your users would only have to type:

* a pro
* another pro
* maybe a con
* and perhaps another con

That would be output as:

<ul>
<li>a pro</li>
<li>another pro</li>
<li>maybe a con</li>
<li>and perhaps another con</li>
</ul>

Cheers

Dry

If it will only be list items in those pro and con fields, maybe you could also define an <li> HTML button in EE and ask your users to double klick every line and apply the button. If you set field formatting to none and wrap the field like this

<ul>
{pros}
</ul>

you´ll also end up with correct markup. Wolfram

Cheers guys, loadsa good feedback. I’m not actually up to this point in development yet, just thinking ahead, but so far I’m leaning towards something like this:

<?php
$items  =  explode( ", ", "list item 1, list item 2, list item 3" );
echo  "<ul>";
foreach(  $items  as  $item  )
{
       echo  "<li>$item</li>";
}
echo  "</ul>";
?>

Any thoughts?

Greg,

Just wondering if you worked out a solution for this?

I have the exact same issue, I have a text area that I’m requiring users to enter a product list - a product on each line within the text area. I too want to output this as a <li> </li> in the template for formatting (or even have the output split over two columns which I’m not sure how that will work.

I’m fairly versed with EE but not as experience with straight PHP - just wondering if the above code was what you used or if you could explain in a little more detail what I need to do to get this working in my template?

Thanks.

You might look for the ListMaker plugin, as that’ll make each new line in the textarea be its own list item.  I’ve used that for a few things - it’s very useful.

Thanks for that Lisa - I’ll check that out. Another plugin I wasn’t aware of.