Turning TEXTAREA data into HTML

[Anon]

Hi there,

I'm trying to write a forum script which will take a message which is written into a textarea box and put the data into a mySQL database.

The problem is that line breaks are ignored so when I query the database for a particular message and output the data to a webpage, it appears as just one paragraph.

Does anyone know a way around this?

Many thanks,
Peter.

[Anon]

when printing the data back to the webpage use this:

$new_text = nl2br($yourDataFromD😎;

echo "$new_text";

thats it!
PHP has a function nl2br(); which automatically converts \n's to <BR>'s. which of course browser ignores \n's

[Anon]

FANTASTIC! Thank you, I've been trying to do that for about 2 months and today I found this forum and got your very helpful advice in just 20 mins! 🙂

Many thanks,
Peter.

[Anon]

one word - RTFM.

[Anon]

or try using the "WRAP=physical|virtual" in your <TEXTAREA>-html-tag