Posted by John Browne on 06/13/05 22:17

Use the PHP str_replace function before writing it to the DB. Replace
all "\n" characters with an empty string "".

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php


On 6/13/05, Paul Nowosielski <paul@celebrityaccess.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a perplexing problem. I'm gather data through a <textarea>
> html from field and dumping it to MySQL.
>
> I want to display the data as a long string with no carriage returns or
> line breaks in a dhtml div window.
>
> The problem I'm have is that the form data is remembering the carriage
> returns. I tried using trim() and rtrim() with no luck. The data is
> still formatted exactly like it was inputed.
>
> Any ideas why this is happening and how I can format the text properly??
>
> TIA!
>
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