[SOLVED] Help with displaying text

[gterre]

Hello all,

 

I am having problems displaying text. I have disabled html using htmlentities() however i would like to show returns. Is there any way to do this?

[Caesar]

Not sure what it is you're asking. Too vague.

 

Where would you like to display text? Is there user input involved? What does your exsiting code look like? etc....Also, you can make exceptions when cleaning out html, and only allow those tags you want.

[gterre]

this is how i have it set up..

 

the user inputs text into a textarea field pressing enter on the keyboard for breaks.

text goes into the database.

using a select query the text is displayed, however the breaks entered by pressing the enter key is not honored and is replaced by a space.

 

I would like it so that the breaks entered into the textarea would be honored and appeared exactly as entered.

[kenrbnsn]

You have to do the functions in the correct order:

<?php
echo nl2br(htmlentities($_POST['textarea']));
?>

 

Ken

[gterre]

Thanks for the help, returns are working fine. I had no idea that function existed.