Preserve Line Breaks From TextArea
PhpMysqlHtmlPhp Problem Overview
I'm using a textarea to enable users to input comments. However, if the users enters new lines, the new lines don't appear when they are outputted. Is there any way to make the line breaks stay.
Any idea how do preserve the line breaks?
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
Two solutions for this:
- PHP function
nl2br():
e.g.,
echo nl2br("This\r\nis\n\ra\nstring\r");
// will output
This<br />
is<br />
a<br />
string<br />
2. Wrap the input in <pre></pre> tags.
Solution 2 - Php
Here is what I use
$textToOutput = nl2br(htmlentities($text, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
$text is the text that needs to be displayed
$textToOutput is the returned text from nl2br and htmlentities so it can be safety displayed in the html context.
ENT_QUOTES will convert both double and single quotes, so you'll have no trouble with those.
Solution 3 - Php
Got my own answer: Using this function from the data from the textarea solves the problem:
function mynl2br($text) {
return strtr($text, array("\r\n" => '<br />', "\r" => '<br />', "\n" => '<br />'));
}
More here: http://php.net/nl2br
Solution 4 - Php
i am using this two method steps for preserve same text which is in textarea to store in mysql and at a getting time i can also simply displaying plain text.....
step 1:
$status=$_POST['status'];<br/>
$textToStore = nl2br(htmlentities($status, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
In query enter $textToStore....
step 2:
> write code for select query...and direct echo values....
It works
Solution 5 - Php
This works:
function getBreakText($t) {
return strtr($t, array('\\r\\n' => '<br>', '\\r' => '<br>', '\\n' => '<br>'));
}
Solution 6 - Php
function breakit($t) {
return nl2br(htmlentities($t, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
}
this may help you
pass the textarea wal
Solution 7 - Php
why make is sooooo hard people when it can be soooo easy :)
//here is the pull from the form
$your_form_text = $_POST['your_form_text'];
//line 1 fixes the line breaks - line 2 the slashes
$your_form_text = nl2br($your_form_text);
$your_form_text = stripslashes($your_form_text);
//email away
$message = "Comments: $your_form_text";
mail("[email protected]", "Website Form Submission", $message, $headers);
you will obviously need headers and likely have more fields, but this is your textarea take care of