RE: [PHP] Need help with line breaks in a textarea form

John, If I just echo $text on the webpage now, everything shows as it should. HOWEVER, another problem I didn't even clue into until now. This form gets emailed to a specified address and all I get in my email is one long line with no line breaks. How do I fix this? I was reading a thread in a web based group you were having with another person, but none of your suggestions there worked. Suggestions.... Thanks again... -----Original Message----- From: John W. Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@charter.net] Sent: July 16, 2004 12:14 PM To: PHP User Cc: PHP Subject: Re: [PHP] Need help with line breaks in a textarea form PHP User wrote: > Something came to mind as soon as I sent my last email, and it seems > to work. Not sure it will work in every circumstance but the few tests > I tried seemed ok. This is what I did. I added the two following lines to my script. > > $text=str_replace("\n","<br>",$text); > $text=str_replace("<br />","",$text); Okay... let's say you have $text that is text that was entered into a textarea. To put it _back into_ a textare, you simply need to do this: <textarea rows="5" cols="50"><?=htmlentities($text)?></textarea> That's it. If you want to display $text to the user outside of a <textarea>, then you do this: echo nl2br(htmlentities($text)); If you want to insert $text into a database and magic_quotes_gpc is enabled, you do this: $query = "INSERT INTO yourtable (textcolumn) VALUES ('$text')"; If magic_quotes_gpc is not enabled (you can check with get_magic_quotes_gpc(), btw), then you'd use this: $text = addslashes($text); $query = "INSERT INTO yourtable (textcolumn) VALUES ('$text')"; If you'd like to extract the winning lottery numbers from $text, you simply... -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals - www.phparch.com