[SOLVED] Adding line breaks

[pgrevents]

What I am trying to do is basicly (hopefully) is i am creating a bio part for my website and it will be saving to a mysql database. What I want to recreate is how the user typed it in such as spaces and line breaks like <br/> etc. If the user hits enter and creates a new paragraph in essence i want the php to add the <br/>

 

I hope in reading this you understand what I am trying to get across cause I dont lol 

 

Does anyone have any ideas

 

cheers

 

Paul

[ialsoagree]

http://us.php.net/nl2br

[pgrevents]

basicly the user will be entering into a normal text area form element and it recreates exactly what the user has typed???

[ialsoagree]

That website goes over how to do exactly what you describe:

 

<?php
$formatted_submission = nl2br($unformatted_submission);
?>

[pgrevents]

sorry for the delay what a simple solution lol thanks... now how would one remove the line breaks from showing in the text area for example updating the entered text?

 

thanks again.

[KPH71]

<?php
str_replace("<br>", "\n", $string);
?>

[wildteen88]

sorry for the delay what a simple solution lol thanks... now how would one remove the line breaks from showing in the text area for example updating the entered text?

 

thanks again.

You should use nl2br when you display the text to screen. That way you wonthave to convert the <br /> tags with \n, which just over complicates things

[pgrevents]

i never thought of that what i done was removed them using ereg_replace function but that sounds much better and probably more of a space saver in the long run.

 

 

thanks