Preserving carriage-returns in FORM values

Anon

Quick question:

I have a TEXTAREA in my form, but when I use the <ENTER> key to move onto a new line, no characters are inserted into my form VALUE so when I next display the values that have been entered, everything appears as one long string:

for example, if I enter
1. ooh
2. er
3. missus

then when I view this record I am shown:

1.ooh 2.er 3.missus

How can I make sure these newlines are always displayed when I echo my values?

Many Thanks,
B

Anon

Try using nl2br()

echo $form_content; // Nope!
echo nl2br($form_content) // Yep!

Brett

Anon

print(newline_to_br($string));

This will replace all new line characters(\n) with html break tags (<br>)

Anon

I use a [pre] <pre> tag in my output such as <pre><? echo $textarea; ?></pre> this also works for data coming out of a database.

Anon

Great, thanks to Brett, Rodney and Jon for that... I used nl2br() and that works fine...
now I have to find a way to preserve the spaces in the text:

I.e. if I enter:
1. ooh
2. er
3. missus

then when I display this only one space is displayed, like so:

ooh
er
missus

... there must be the equivalent
of a "spaces to &nbsp" function?

Anon

okay, that didn't display right... so this site has the same problem I do... I'll post a brand new message..