astupiduser Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Hi, I have the following issue: I have a form (textarea), where my user writes a text (e-mail). There are of course some newlines in it. I have to save it in a database and then read it and send it as an e-mail (function mail). The problem is, when I do that all the newlines get somehow stripped and my e-mail has only one line and looks ugly. When I read it and put itt back in the textarea, it looks as it should but not when I mail it. Does anybody have a solution? Regards, astupiduser Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/191422-newline-in-a-database/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Before you add it to the body of the email call nl2br on the data to convert newline characters to their html equivalent <br /> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/191422-newline-in-a-database/#findComment-1009166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
astupiduser Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 Thanks a lot, it works! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/191422-newline-in-a-database/#findComment-1011607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 You should actually use the nl2br function on the way out of the database, not the way in. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/191422-newline-in-a-database/#findComment-1011613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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