Best Way To Make A Message - HELP!!

[oliverj777]

Basically, All I want to do is save a .txt (doesn't have to be .txt) to my FTP and PHP simple echos it. The .txt is where a message is stored. But when I write the message my self like this:

Hello

 

This is a message.

 

- And then upload it to my FTP, PHP echos it like this "HelloThis is a message". Is there anyway for PHP to notice the 'white space'?

 

--OR--

 

If you know of a better way to make a message system, then also let me know

 

Thanks, Ollie!

[Adam]

It isn't PHP that ignores the white-space, it's the browser. If you look at the source you'll see the spacing is preserved. HTML offers the <pre> tag that by default preserves white-space, or you can apply the CSS property white-space:nowrap;.

[kenrbnsn]

Use the function nl2br on the data when displaying it.

 

Ken

[Adam]

... or nl2br() .. However what I said is true and may come in useful in the future when line-breaks are not the problem.

[oliverj777]

Where would I insert that then? Here is the code im using to echo:

 

include("mail.txt");

 

Cheers

[Adam]

Read the contents of the file with file_get_contents into a variable and apply nl2br() to that.

[oliverj777]

Umm - help me out here. Is this correct:

 

 $mail = file_get_contents("users/$session->username/messages/mail.txt"); 
nl2br($mail);
echo $mail;

[Adam]

You need to assign the result of nl2br() to $mail:

 

$mail = nl2br($mail);

[oliverj777]

Nice one mate - it works!