Re: How to handle multiple lines in PHP?
| From: | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | Date: | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:25:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to handle multiple lines in PHP? | ||
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, david klein wrote:
> I have a textarea in one php page to allow user to leave message. How ever,
> if the user input(three lines):
>
> 123
> 456
> 567
>
> after I get it through some php scripts, and put it into database, later on,
> I try to display it, but it becomes(only one line):
>
> 123 456 789
>
> Does anyone know how to handle this? One idea is to convert the <END OF LINE
> CHAR> to "<BR>" before putting it into the database, but how can we detect
> the <END OF LINE CHAR> in PHP? Or is there any other ways?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
The newline char in PHP is '\n'.
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