Insert line break?

**hooligan2001** · 06-27-2005, 02:00 AM

I have a from that generates a html page what i have in the form is a few textarea boxes that the user fills in and then clicks submit. But the problem is it doesn't keep the line breaks "<br>" when it returns to the submitted form.

so on the html output form i have $input = $_POST['input'];
then the code for a table and <?php echo $input; ?> but instead of remembering the carrage returns it just warps the text.

How do i achieve this.

Thanks in Advance

**nunomira** · 06-27-2005, 05:17 PM

hi,

You can use nl2br().

Here's a simple example:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>line breaks</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
if (isset ($_POST['Submit']))
{
$input = $_POST['input'];
$input = nl2br ($input);
echo $input;
}
else
{
?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" name="form1" target="_self" id="form1">
  <textarea name="input" id="input"></textarea>
  <br />
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?php
}
?>
</body>
</html>

Remember that there are some security measures that you should follow when receiving user input!

**hooligan2001** · 06-27-2005, 08:57 PM

Hehe found out how to do it last night. But i want the text to html formatted. It gets outputted to a table in a email. So i had a script that inputs the html code for a image on the net now it doesnt work at all. Does nl2br() stop html properties?

Thanks for your help

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