spaces in a textarea

[ozric]

I'm looking to display data from a textarea field exactly how it was
entered, including spaces (simulating a pressed TAB key).

For example, if people were logging hours on a project for Time &
Material, I have people entering:

Name<space><space><space>Hours
Joe<space><space><space>6
Sue<space><space><space>7

It is displayed in html as:

Name Hours

Joe 6

Sue 7

How do I capture the spacing? It always seems to get truncated or
pressed together when displayed in html.
However, if I edit it back in a textarea, it is fine.

[Kudose]

&nbsp; is HTML for space.

[Kudose]

& nbsp ; with out the spaces 🙂

[mogster]

Well, I've posted this function before, but it will do what you require, I believe:

function dbOut($text) {
$text = stripslashes($text);
$text = str_replace(chr(13), "<br>", $text);
$text = str_replace("  ", " &nbsp;", $text);
return($text);
}

knutm

[webgod]

A guess..

print(str_replace(" "," ",$sometext));