Pulling some strnings

[Anon]

I am using the
nl2br();
For formatting the text entered in a textarea

now the new lines are working ok but if I type something like:

blah blah blah

blah

The white spaces are removed and outputs:

===================================
blah blah blah

blah

Is there a way either through the textarea tag or php to keep the whit spaces are there?

[Anon]

I think what you are saying is you want something that, essentially, does the reverse of nl2br(). So br2nl() it will be. First, keep in mind that nl2br replaces "\n" characters with "<br />\n" on recent versions, so I'll be using that...

function br2nl($string) {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return str_replace("<br />\n","\n",$string);
}

I hope that is what you wanted.

-Josh B

[Anon]

Yha I don't think I was explaining it right...I was looking to replace the \n with the <br> :-)

I figured out what I was trying to do though.

See I wanted the empty spaces kept as a charater and not removed when displaying in HTML format, and the \n to <br> so the browser could understand.

I fix it by doing:

if ( $username && $subject && $body )
{
$space = " "; // so it is a simple space
$body_s = str_replace("$space", "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;", $body); // the &nbsp;'s are equal to one typed space in html...so replace any spaceswith that from the body of the message
$body_s_nl = nl2br($body_s);then remove the \n and put <br> so the browser see's spaced lines typed in
$body = $body_s_nl; and then just replace the body of the message again before saving/ outputing

But thanks for the help guy