line breaks

[kaliok]

Hi I am having some trouble with converting html code to real line breaks in a textarea, I have the following code that I gets html code from a database and then puts it into a textarea but the str_replace I am using converts the text but puts the actual characters \r\n in the textarea, and doesn't actually turn it into a linebreak. (the br below is reality in triangular brackets!)

 

$paragraph=$row['paragraph'];

$paragraph=str_replace('br','\r\n',$paragraph);

.....

<textarea name="ud_text" cols="50" rows="15" maxlength="300"><? echo $paragraph ?></textarea>

 

Perhaps someone can help me with this?

 

Thanks in advance.

[pocobueno1388]

I think your looking for the function nl2br().

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

[wildteen88]

Use double quotes when using escaped characters in a string.:

$paragraph=$row['paragraph'];
$paragraph=str_replace('<br />',"\r\n",$paragraph);

 

But can I ask why you are converting html line breaks back into newlines?

[kaliok]

Guess I was being a little thick. Couldn't get nl2br to work, was using it in the wrong place, needed to put in after getting it from the database! So I converted the carriage returns/line breaks to a my own bracketed chars, then converted them on the front end, but wasn't behaving in the text area, so it prompted the question. Got the point now! Thanks for your help.