I'm using a textarea to enable users to input comments. However, if the users enters new lines, the new lines don't appear when they are outputted. Is there any way to make the line breaks stay.
Any idea how do preserve the line breaks?
I'm using a textarea to enable users to input comments. However, if the users enters new lines, the new lines don't appear when they are outputted. Is there any way to make the line breaks stay.
Any idea how do preserve the line breaks?
Two solutions for this:
PHP function nl2br()
:
e.g.,
echo nl2br("This\r\nis\n\ra\nstring\r");
// will output
This<br />
is<br />
a<br />
string<br />
Wrap the input in <pre></pre>
tags.
Here is what I use
$textToStore = nl2br(htmlentities($inputText, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
$inputText
is the text provided by either the form or textarea.
$textToStore
is the returned text from nl2br
and htmlentities
, to be stored in your database.
ENT_QUOTES
will convert both double and single quotes, so you'll have no trouble with those.
Got my own answer: Using this function from the data from the textarea solves the problem:
function mynl2br($text) {
return strtr($text, array("\r\n" => '<br />', "\r" => '<br />', "\n" => '<br />'));
}
More here: http://php.net/nl2br
i am using this two method steps for preserve same text which is in textarea to store in mysql and at a getting time i can also simply displaying plain text.....
step 1:
$status=$_POST['status'];<br/>
$textToStore = nl2br(htmlentities($status, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
In query enter $textToStore
....
step 2:
write code for select query...and direct echo values....
It works
why make is sooooo hard people when it can be soooo easy :)
//here is the pull from the form
$your_form_text = $_POST['your_form_text'];
//line 1 fixes the line breaks - line 2 the slashes
$your_form_text = nl2br($your_form_text);
$your_form_text = stripslashes($your_form_text);
//email away
$message = "Comments: $your_form_text";
mail("[email protected]", "Website Form Submission", $message, $headers);
you will obviously need headers and likely have more fields, but this is your textarea take care of