[SOLVED] text formatting problem

[MDanz]

when i copy and paste then submit in the form. 

 

when displaying, it doesnt recognize the line breaks or paragraphs?

 

so it just echo everything all in one bundled together..

 

 

how do i get it to display in correct format?

[wildteen88]

Use nl2br

[MDanz]

thx

 

 

is there anyway it can be done automatically... so when a user copies and pastes.. the line breaks are inserted automatically?

[wildteen88]

The line breaks are there. Web browser ignore whites space, such as newlines. if you look in your page source you'll see there are in fact there. In order for a web browsers to render a new line you must use the line break tag --<br />

 

nl2br converts the newlines to line break tags for you. You use nl2br on the variable that contains the text with the new lines. Example

 

<?php

if(isset($_POST['text']))
{
   echo '<b>Without nl2br</b><br>';
   echo $_POST['text'];

  echo '<br ><br >';

   echo '<b>With nl2br</b><br>';
   echo nl2br($_POST['text']);
}

?>
<form action="" method="post">
<textarea name="text">text

with 

new lines!</textarea><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Post" />
</form>

[MDanz]

thx but i did this instead.. got it working

 

 

str_replace ("\r\n", '<br />', $result['info']);

 

 

[wildteen88]

Why do that when that is what nl2br is for?