Re: Processing newlines in a text area field
| From: | Jason Pruim | Date: | Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:55:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Processing newlines in a text area field | ||
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Answer below!
Jason Pruim
lists@pruimphotography.com
On Oct 13, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Stephen wrote:
> I have a web page with a form with a text area. I enter:
>
> foo
>
>
> bar
>
> PHP processes the POST and inserts the record into MySQL.
>
> The database field is text.
>
> I use PDO
>
> For testing I have removed any processing of the text area content.
>
> Now, no matter how many blank rows I have between foo and bar, in the database record, I always
> get a single newline character.
>
> I am using Firefox 7.0.1.
>
> Is this normal behaviour? I want to be able to enter more than 1 newline.
It could possibly be just not displaying it properly in the webpage... try running the output
through: nl2br(); and see if that helps.
>
> Thanks
> Stephen
>
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