[SOLVED] Spacing, Line Breaks - HELP!

[JSHINER]

When I use the following:

<?php echo htmlentities(stripslashes($page['listing']['desc'])); ?>

 

It displays the text as:

 

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Text. Line 2. Line 3

 

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Which is INCORRECT

 

When I use the following in a text area:

 

<textarea name="desc"><?php echo htmlentities(stripslashes($page['listing']['desc'])); ?></textarea>

 

It displays the text as:

 

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Text.

 

Line 2.

 

Line 3.

 

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Which is CORRECT.

 

Any ideas why this is happening?

 

 

[HuggieBear]

$page['listing']['desc'] contains some "\n" characters (newline) which aren't displayed in HTML, but are in <textarea> tag.

 

Regards

Huggie

[JSHINER]

How do I get them to display in the HTML? str_replace /n with <br> ?

[JSHINER]

Solved using:

 

str_replace("\n", '<br />', htmlentities(stripslashes($page['listing']['desc'])));

 

[HuggieBear]

How do I get them to display in the HTML?

 

Use the function nl2br()

 

Regards

Huggie