Posted by deko on 03/17/07 12:56

I have a feedback form on my website with a textarea for visitors to type
comments, etc. Nothing special. When users click the "Send" button, the form
posts, and I copy the contents of the textarea to a file like this:

$feedback = trim($_POST['feedback_textarea']);
$fp = fopen($feedback_file,'a');
fwrite($fp, $feedback);
fclose($fp);

The problem is the line breaks in the textarea are lost when copied to the file.

For example:

This is a line.

This is a new line.

This is another new line.

becomes:

This is a line. This is a new line. This is another new line.

And this:

This is a "test"

becomes:

This is a \"test\"

Is there a way to preserve line breaks and other formatting when coping to a
file from a HTML textarea?

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