[RESOLVED] upon $_POST keep spaces and formatting

[Shadows]

Hello, I'm after a little tip. I am making a pm system for my website, the problem is the majority of people on my site wont know html. In the text area when a user spaces out there message (paragraph) with the enter key. I want this to stay the same. When the person gets this message, the space is gone. Any idea's. Like if I send this.

Hello friend,

how are you

The person will see this message like this.

Hello friend,how are you

I want to keep the spaces

[visualAd]

When you output the text use the nl2br() function. This will convert all new lines to HTML line breaks. If you want to preserve spaces, you should use <pre> tags.

?>
<pre>
<?php echo($text); ?>
</pre>

You can also use the str_replace() function to find all spaces and replace them with a non breaking soace '&nbsp;':

$text = str_replace(' ', '&vbsp;', $text); 

[Shadows]

When you output the text use the nl2br() function. This will convert all new lines to HTML line breaks. If you want to preserve spaces, you should use <pre> tags.

?>
<pre>
<?php echo($text); ?>
</pre>

You can also use the str_replace() function to find all spaces and replace them with a non breaking soace '&nbsp;':

$text = str_replace(' ', '&vbsp;', $text); 

absolutely fantasic, thank you mate, my script works perfectly from your tip, thank you!