Re: Preserving line breaks from form data.
| From: | Jon Parise | Date: | Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:20:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Preserving line breaks from form data. | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
| Request: | Send a blank email to php-general+get-8957@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 08:58:25PM +0800, Shashank Tripathi wrote:
> 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>", $mytext );
> ?>
> -------------------------------------------------
Or even beter:
echo nl2br($mytext);
See http://www.php.net/manual/function.nl2br.php.
--
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House
Member