The information returned from a text box includes line feeds in the form of
\n which is not recognized by browsers as a line feed. To make it display
properly, you need to convert all the \ns to brs.. Here's a snippet
of code that I use:
// Assume that the text field is named 'message' and this is the code that
processes the form input
$message = ereg_replace(\n,br, $message);
//Now this will display properly.
Often it is handy to change quotes to quot so that you don't run into php
conflicts when you're processing the text. You can use the same command to
do that.
Hope this helps,
-Micah Stevens
Raincross Technologies
At 02:29 PM 7/3/2001 -0500, you wrote:
I am creating a content management page that uses a textarea box to enter a
chunk of text which then is sent into the database into a text-type field.
I am finding that when the data is retrieved to be shown in the browser that
the line feeds are lost. I don't want users to have to know HTML to put
tags in themselves. What's the best way to handle this?
Can I read from the database and insert br's and p's to be put into the
displayed HTML? Or, instead, is there a way to put the br's and p's
immediately into the database when the record is inserted? How can I do
this? How would the string be manipulated?
Thanks for your help,
-Casey
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