I was wondering if it was possible to include a form in my website that uploads text from a text field as a HTML file into a directory so that I can link to from my archive.

I would like to be able to let my visitors upload their poetry/lyrics with out submitting it by email and so that its easier to include in my site. It needs to include all the link breaks without me needing to edit it. It also needs to be able to disallow html tags and and other scripting language.

Basically it needs to be something like a blog or forum post, if you understand what I mean.
So that users just type in their text, submit it and its added to a directory as a html file in the same format its writen in.

Any help would be appriciated

Do you want to allow any kind of formatting, or do you just want text with line breaks?
If so you can use a text area, feeding into a database field of type TEXT, but before you put it in to the database, (or after it comes out) you call nl2br() on the text, which results in all the newlines (\n) being replaced with '<br />' and the line breaks appearing on the page.

If you want to have links or color tags or anything, it gets more complex and you'll either need to do it yourself with regexs or go and pinch some code from a blog or forum script .

Thanks. I wont be doing it for a bit yet as I'm still learning the fundementals of PHP/MySQL. I just wanted to kno if it was possible so I could start building the database. I dont need it to be formated but I presume I can set stylesheets on that file or upload it with a template?

Thanks again!