RE: [PHP] inserting spaces/returns in form postings
| From: | MR | Date: | Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:27:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] inserting spaces/returns in form postings | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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"Matthew Kendall" ...
> "Police Trainee" wrote...
> > is there anyway to translate or write extra spaces and
> > carriage returns in a file so that it is reflected on
> > a browser without making the user enter a <br> or
> > each time they want a return or an extra space?
>
> Turn the spaces and carriage returns into and <br> using search and
> replace functions, or using functions provided for this purpose like nl2br:
> http://www.php.net/manual/function.nl2br.php
You should try out also htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars().