Bibliophile
Posted on May 11, 2007
Browsing works in Lingo. You can check out the Russian/English dictionary or the Japanese/English dictionary to see. It was easier than I expected, though not without errors (typos are the bane of coding). Also, it’s still not quite perfect.
In the text file, I used \n liberally so synonyms would each show up on a new line. These were passed directly into MySQL as is. However, PHP is ignoring it. In many computer languages, \n creates a new line. PHP is the same way, but for some reason \n is getting lost or not being interpreted. Looking in PHPMyAdmin, I can see them presented as they are supposed to be (on a new line), so I assume \n is still in there, but maybe MySQL isn’t passing it along. Dunno.
updated
It turns out HTML was ignoring \n, not PHP. PHP passes it along as a new line, but HTML has a special tag for that < br > without the spaces in between. I fixed it with a handy inline str_replace statement. Now the dictionaries render more or less properly (I won’t get into the whole alphabetical order thing now).
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