Reg : writing php content in javascript function.

[sumathi]

i have the following content in my first php page.

<form name="test" id="test" method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>">
<textarea name="txt" id="txt"></textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="send" value="yes" id="yes">
<input type="button" name="submit" value="submit" onClick="writeme()">
</form>

i enter multiples lines in the textarea by pressing the enter key(new line). it gets saved into the db...i retrieve the contents from the da & have them placed in a string named

$strtoPrint

Now i call a javascipt function to print this string like this...

function writeme()
{
document.write("<?=$strtoPrint?>");
}

I'm ended with the following error....

Error: unterminated string literal
Source File: http://localhost/test/test_newline.php
Line: 30, Column: 16
Source Code:
document.write("1 - one - <br>2 - two - <br>3 - three - <br>4 - four - <br>5 - one - <br>6 - six
seven
eight

can anyone please help me? thanks in advance..it's very urgent.

[Weedpacket]

You probably need to escape the newline character. Replace it with "\n".

$strtoPrint = str_replace("\n","\\n", $strtoPrint);

Then the Javascript code would contain
"1 - one - <br>2 - two - <br>3 - three - <br>4 - four - <br>5 - one - <br>6 - six\nseven\neight\n"

[sumathi]

i tried that. but still i'm getting the same error. anyway thank you. can you help me with some other solution?

[AstroTeg]

I think you might need:

$strtoPrint = str_replace("\n",'\n', $strtoPrint);

or

$strtoPrint = str_replace("\n","\\n", $strtoPrint);

I could be wrong - I didn't get much sleep this morning...