problem guestbook

[Atari]

I finally finished my first own guestbook. I putted it up and everything worked fine but now it seems that if people use the 'enter' button al the text after this is not displayed. I know were the problem is: I write everithing seperated by |. for example:

johan|[e-mail]|www.odl.cruz.be|maar of er alles op komt is een ander vraag, ik heb precies veel meer getypt daarnet; dat de wedstrijd nog steeds van toepassing is op het nieuwe gastenboek hehe
johan|[e-mail]|www.odl.cruz.be|hierzie, voor mij macheert hem. en de wedstrijd loopt nog steeds hehe
Pé|[e-mail]|odl.cruz.be|wij willen smiley\'s!!

Every record is seperated because it begins on a new line; to read the information, I make an array of the file. And here's the problem; When te 'enter' button is used php looks at this as a new line in the array.

Does anyone know a cure for this guestbook-childdesease?

greetz,

<?
$array = file("gastenboek.txt");
foreach($array as $row) {
$line = explode("|", $row);
if (count($line) > 1) {
print "<table width=\"368\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"7\" bordercolor=\"#FFFFFF\" align=\"center\">
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=\"154\" bgcolor=\"#F4F4F4\"><b><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Naam
: </font></b></td>
<td width=\"205\" bgcolor=\"#FFCC00\" bordercolor=\"#000000\"><a href= mailto:$line[1]><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">$line[0]</font></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=\"154\" bgcolor=\"#F4F4F4\"><b><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Homepage
: </font></b></td>
<td width=\"205\" bgcolor=\"#FFCC00\" bordercolor=\"#000000\"><a href= [url]http://[/url]$line[2] target=\"_blank\"><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">$line[2]</font></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=\"154\" bgcolor=\"#F4F4F4\"><b><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Comments
: </font></b></td>
<td rowspan=\"2\" bgcolor=\"#FFCC00\" bordercolor=\"#000000\" width=\"205\" valign=\"top\"><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">$line[3]</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=\"154\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" height=\"80\"><b></b></td>
</tr>
<tr bordercolor=\"#FFFFFF\">
<td colspan=\"2\" height=\"8\">
<div align=\"center\">
<hr align=\"center\" noshade>
</div>
</td>

</table>
";
}

}

?>

[jnuneznyc]

Before saving the record run it through nl2br() which will change all enter's into <br>. Then add it to the file with a line break at the end of it.

[TRoLL420]

Hey i was having the same problem too. Could you explain to me hwo to "run it through" nl2br().

Thanks

[rIkLuNd]

<?php

function CleanMsg()
{
global $_POST;

$msg = $_POST['msg'];
// Skip this step if you want html to be allowed:
$msg = htmlspecialchars($msg);
$msg = nl2br($msg);
echo $msg;

}

?>

[TRoLL420]

Thanks, that worked fine.

[Atari]

Ok people thanx a lot, but could you please a bit more specific? The code above, where do I have to put that?

[Atari]

I tried to fit it into my sign code but it doesn't do anything.

http://users.skynet.be/odl/gastenboekje.zip

Here's my code, maybe it's easier if you could take a look at it.

thanx,

[TRoLL420]

just do this:

$entry = nl2br($entry);

[Atari]

When I look at my txt-file now I can see that indeed <br /> is added; But still, when I try to read out the information, it still doesn't show everything behind the <br/ >-sign.

[Atari]

This is my text-file. You can view my guestbook at www.odl.cruz.be -> gastenboek.

[TRoLL420]

hmmm, I seem to be having another problem where a "\" will appear after a " ' ". Anyone know how to fix this?