\r\n and SESSIONS

[Oziam]

Hi guys,

I have come across a problem when working with session data, I have been storing data from a textarea in a session, but the problem is when I retrieve the data and display it back in a textarea or to mysql it saves the carriage returns and line breaks as \r\n not converting it to actual line breaks.

 

e.g saving the following from a text area;

 

Line 1

Line 2

Line 3

 

will actually show as: Line 1 \r\nLine 2 \r\nLine3

 

 

How do I get it to show properly as intended?

I have tried str_replace('\r\n', '\n'); with double and single quotes

 

any helpful suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks..

[btherl]

Please post your code.  I'll need to see everything related to getting the data from the form and storing it in the session, and everything from where the data is fetched from the session to where it is put into the HTML again.

 

BTW "\n" is a linefeed, '\n' is a backslash followed by the letter n.

[Oziam]

Yeah I figured it out. It was the textarea wrap attribute, I had it set to virtual which reads data as a string but I changed it to physical and now it saves the data correctly as intended. Sorry a HTML gotcha nothing to do with PHP.