How to put returns in a textfile from a textfield ?

[fragger]

Hi all,

i have a multiline Textfield and write the contents to a textfile with fputs(). My problem now, is, that my returns from the Textfile
are ignored. Can anyone help me please ?

Here is the code 🙂

<?PHP
print"<form method=post action=$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]>";

function writeNews ($update)
{
$NewsFile = "news_read.txt";
$fp = fopen($NewsFile,"w");
fputs($fp ,$update);
fclose($fp);
}
if (isset($WriteToNews))
{
writeNews ($NewsField);
}
print "<textarea name=NewsField cols=50 rows=2></textarea>";
print "</form</td><p>";
print "<input type=submit name=WriteToNews value=Submit>"
?>
</form>

[swr]

HTML ignores newlines. If you're outputing the file into a web page you need to use the BR tag instead.

Use the [man]nl2br[/man] function to do the conversion.

There are other characters that have special meaning in HTML that you may want to escape. You may need to do [man]htmlentities[/man] or [man]htmlspecialchars[/man] before or instead of (but never after) [man]nl2br[/man].

[fragger]

Wow ! thanx ! That works with the nl2br () tag 🙂

Olli😃