How to get textarea line by line

puyopuy

I want to use PHP to get the textarea line by line. I try the folowing code but doesn't work. Any help is appreciate.

##################
get_content.htm
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################
end
#################

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get_content.php
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echo $content[0];

################
end
#################

I typed

a@a.com
b@b.com

in the textarea. And get_content.php display
a@a.com
b@b.com
not a@a.com

Please help

Anon

You probably worded your question wrong. Because according to your question, you got exactly what you typed.

If you meant you only got the first line, and not the rest...for example.... you typed

hello this is line one
hello this is line two
hello this is line three

And, then, your php only showed either:
"hello"....
or
"hello this is line one"

Then, you had the same problem I had. I solved it by urlencoding the contents.

Anon

your variable "content[]" holds the value "a@a.com\nb@b.com "
Your first line comes before the '\n' newline character...

puyopuy

Thanks Noerd

My question is I want to get my textarea line by line just like putting the string in anarray. For your example:

$content[0] will return :"hello this is line one "

$content[1] will return :"hello this is line two "

sgs-techie

Hi puyopuy ,
First of all even if u define content as an array , everything that u write in this textarea will be treated as a single element in the array , so I do not think it will suffice ur need. Instead u can just define as a variable.
You can try something like this :

$content_line = explode("\n" , $content) ;

The arrray $content_line shld give u the textarea line by line.

Hope this helps u. 🙂

puyopuy

Thank you very much SGS 🙂 this is exactly what I want to do.

puyopuy

Thanks Bobby I tried to your suggestion and it works fine, but SGS's suggestion is more easy.