Re: Editing in a text area field
| From: | Daniel Brown | Date: | Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:23:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Editing in a text area field | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 08:12, Stephen <stephen-d@rogers.com> wrote:
> I have a form to accept free text in a textarea field. The entry is stored
> in a database.
>
> If the user enters:
>
> abc
> def
> ghi
>
> I want it to finally display like that.
>
> If they enter
>
> abc
>
> def
>
> ghi
>
> I want it to display with the line gaps.
Why not store it as plain text in the database, then run it
through nl2br() when you SELECT it from the database for display?
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