preserving ENTERs in <textarea> fields

[j_bravo_k_ro]

i have a problem with a form... i use a <textarea name='comment'> field, which i keep in a BLOB field of my database. when i display the contents of the blob later, all the "new line characters" are lost, and everything is displayed on the same row.
i have tried the option "wrap=physical", but it doesn;t seem to be working...

10x 😉

[Weedpacket]

I'm guessing that by "displaying the contents" you're using echo or something like that to show it in a web page.

Use the browser to look at the HTML source of the offending page, you'll probably find the linebreaks are there. But because they're not HTML <br> tags, the browser doesn't put breaks in when it renders.

If so, a quick hit of [man]nl2br[/man] when you display will do the trick.

[kriek]

$clean = str_replace("\n\r\n", "<"p>", $text); 
$clean = nl2br($clean);

Though the nl2br() function is quite misleading since it doesnt remove the \n, it just adds an <br /> So you can choose which method is best for you.

$text = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $text); 
$text = str_replace("<br>", "\n", $text);