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I have a textarea en I want to add the inputted text into a database and after that display it on a website, but the formatting like {ENTER} gets lost, how can I change the {ENTER} to a <br> to save the formatting?

TIA

do something like

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$message = $_POST['textarea'];
$message = str_replace("\n",'<br>',$message);

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and it should turn all newlines into <br>'s

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Originally posted by -dt-
do something like

code:

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$message = $_POST['textarea'];
$message = str_replace("\n",'<br>',$message);

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and it should turn all newlines into <br>'s

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Why not use PHP's nl2br() function?

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Originally posted by Leo

quote:

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Originally posted by -dt-
do something like

code:

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$message = $_POST['textarea'];
$message = str_replace("\n",'
',$message);

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and it should turn all newlines into
's

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Why not use PHP's nl2br() function?

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because as it says "Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string" , keeping the new lines is just blah replacing them is alot better

If you view the source code, keeping \n can be useful.

But meh, whatever.

Btw, are you using your editor? Because it took the <br>'s in the quoted post...

thnx , I used -dt-'s code, so I can change them back If I want to put it into a textarea again

quote:

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Originally posted by Leo
If you view the source code, keeping \n can be useful.

But meh, whatever.

Btw, are you using your editor? Because it took the <br>'s in the quoted post...

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oh thats odd....*looks at quoting code* ah i wasnt escaping the html....
and tis fixed and uploaded...