Posted by Jensen Somers on 03/17/07 12:56

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:56:39 -0700, deko wrote:

> 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?

Use the nl2br() function when printing out that
information. (http://www.php.net/nl2br )

To remove the \ signs there is a function called strip_slashes().

Regards,
Jensen

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