Posted by Shelly on 07/21/05 14:10

Thanks, I'll try that.

Shelly

"Ken Robinson" <kenrbnsn@rbnsn.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Shelly wrote:
>> I write to a file with fwrite. I do it with wordwrap (which I now think
>> is
>> unnecessary). In the text area that it appears, it is left adjusted.
>> Anyway, the command is:
>>
>> $message = wordwrap($_POST['Message'], 70);
>>
>> where Message is the name of the text field.
>>
>> Now when I go to read it, I use fread. The command is:
>>
>> $message = fread($handle, 5000);
>>
>> and I put in the text area of the read form:
>>
>> <textarea name="Message" cols="70" rows="15" readonly="readonly">
>> <?php echo wordwrap($message, 70); ?></textarea>
>>
>> Here is the problem. There are about 15 spaces or so before the first
>> bit
>> of text. After that, everything is fine. It wordwraps fine and does new
>> paragraphs. I cannot seem to find where those initial spaces entered the
>> picture.
>
> You're correct, you don't have to use wordwrap() before writing the
> text to a file. You also don't have to use it when displaying the
> message in the textarea. It will be automagically wrapped at the
> correct places.
>
> Please dump the incoming text at the start of your program, by adding
> the following code:
>
> echo '<pre>';print_r($_POST['Message']);echo '</pre>';
>
> and see if the incoming text is correct.
>
> If you still can't figure out where the extra spaces are coming from,
> you can do use the ltrim() function to remove those spaces when
> displaying the text.
>
> <textarea name="Message" cols="70" rows="15" readonly="readonly">
> <?php echo ltrim($message); ?></textarea>
>
> Ken
>

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