new lines in html form output

fly2279

I have a page that retrieves form information and displays it using print(). My problem is that when I fill out the form with new lines, it doesn't get printed that way. Here is what I have

// Gets the message information from the form
$message=$_POST["message"];
print($message);

Example of what I fill out in the form (exactly as it appears, with new lines):

first line first line first line first line
second line second line second line
third line third line

Then when the string gets printed it comes up as:

first line first line first line first line second line second line second line third line...

How can I make it show the new lines that I've put into the form?

bodzan

... something like [man]nl2br[/man]?

fly2279

Thanks, that works. Now I need to see if it will work with mail().

bpat1434

nl2br will convert all \n characters to <br> HTML markups. So mail() will show:
first line first line first line<br>second line second line second line<br>third line third line third line

There are two possibilities here:
1.) Send your email as HTML mail

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html";

2.) Save the nl2br formatted string to a different var, and send the original

$message = $_POST['message'];
$print_msg = nl2br($message);
mail($to, $from, $subject, $message);

fly2279

thanks for the reply, got it working. Mainly I was just testing the output of the form before I went to work creating the code to mail it. I'll use PHPMailer so there's no fuss.