RE: [PHP] Preserving line breaks from form data.

Hi Generic You could escape the newline characters with an HTML BREAK ("<BR>"). For instance, lets say the name of your HTML form's textbox is "mytext", then the PHP code to read the text that a user entered in "mytext" would be: ------------------------------------------------- <?php echo ereg_replace( "\n", "<br>", $mytext ); ?> ------------------------------------------------- HOpe this helps Shanx -----Original Message----- From: generic@x.duh [mailto:generic@x.duh]On Behalf Of Generic Player Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 8:14 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Preserving line breaks from form data. What do I need to do to preserve linebreaks people make when putting data in a form? I have a textarea in a form which stores the input as $body, but when I print $body, all linebreaks have been turned into spaces. Thanks Generic Player -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net