Formatting Line Breaks in Text Area - Needed

PHP
1

Hello,

I am having some trouble with line breaks passing through a textarea to the database. I understand a few of the methods when reading a bit, though there seems to be a few different methods to accomplish a clean display from a textarea.

I would appreciate any assistance.

Thanks in advance!

2

I assume you mean to convert it so that it’s viewable in HTML?

The simplest approach would be to use nl2br().

The comments on that page should also help you.

3

Thanks Jake, I am giving this a go right now.

4

Well it seems that I am getting a similar variation returning “rnrn” on new lines in the submitted data.

Perhaps my glitch is obvious to you, this is the original code snip I am working with.

  <?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
	$text = stripslashes($row['text']);
	if(!$row['isadmin'] == 1)
	{
		echo "<div class=\\"fileRow\\">".$text."";
	}
	else
	{
		echo "<div class=\\"fileRow admin\\">".$text."";
	}
}

if(isset($_POST['comment']))
{
	echo "<div class=\\"fileRow admin\\">".stripslashes($comment)."";
}
?>
5

Yes, you should remove the stripslashes().

6

Did the trick, thanks a lot Jake!