Textarea formating

ROSEBLOOD

Hello,

Im fairly new to PHP, I have been coding with it for about 6 months now. I ran into a problem when i created a script to update a blog. The user puts their blog into a textbox and then when they hit submit it sends it to a script which then writes it to a .inc text file in their corresponding folder. The problem is that when they type it into the textbox, the script doesnt detect the enters and such and way they wanted the text to be.

EX:

Hello,

This is the
way i want to enter
text.
...

the above gets printed into the text file like so...

Hello, This is the way i want to enter text....

Here are the links to my code

Textarea source:
http://rafb.net/paste/results/LVsAwn18.html

Script Source:
http://rafb.net/paste/results/l9yDPO14.html

Thanks ahead of time.

~ROSEBLOOD

elementaluk

still haven't figured what the hell a blog is but anyway, thats one of my many problems...

as for your problem: just replace newlines with HTML e.g.

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

ROSEBLOOD

A blog is shor for WebLog. Its a like a personal journal that others can view on your website. Thanks for the help I'll try that.

~ROSEBLOOD

planetsim

you may want to use [man]nl2br()[/man] which is shorter version of the str_replace

sysera

For the record, you're much better off formatting the text upon output to the browser, not input into MySQL. I found that out after countless wasted hours.

-Sys

ROSEBLOOD

both of those functions worked...thanks guys.

~ROSEBLOOD