Textarea & PHP - ignores new lines

[Rickead2000]

Hi

In my database there are two main sections, "view" and "edit".

In the "Edit" section I have a textarea where I put some information on several paragraphs with a gap in between each paragraph.

However, in the "View" section which just prints the contents of the textarea it ignores my gaps which I have put in using the enter key!

This should be something simple to fix, but im new to PHP. How do I do it?!

Many thanks

[phpman]

when you enter teh text and then hit enter and then you click on submit, where does it go and how do you save it to the db? also how do you pull it out of the db for that matter.

[The Hobo]

You have two options:

1) use str_replace() to replace the newlines with <br>

$str_to_replace = str_replace("\n", "<br>\n", $str_to_replace);

2) Instead of just hitting enter twice, stick a <br><br> in there

This is paragraph one.
<br><br>
This is paragraph two.
<br><br>
This is paragraph three.
<br><br>

[DJ P@CkMaN]

PHP has a function specifically for this that produces XHTML-compliant code.

nl2br()

echo nl2br($row['text']); 

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by DJ P@CkMaN
PHP has a function specifically for this that produces XHTML-compliant code.

nl2br()

echo nl2br($row['text']); 

I've heard of a few people having problems with that function.

[phpman]

I really hate when you answer posts and they never come back and let us know if it worked or not.

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by phpman
I really hate when you answer posts and they never come back and let us know if it worked or not.

Me too, buddy.