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For this case, you need to create a function that will convert certain patterns to certain HTML tags. You can use the preg_replace() function to do it. For example, if you want to convert the words between stars (*) into italic, you can use this code:
$text = get_field('text');
$pattern = '/(.*)\*(.*)\*(.*)/';
$replacement = '$1<i>$2</i>$3';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $text);
That way you can input the text like this:
this is normal *this is italic* this is normal
I hope this helps 🙂
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