[SOLVED] Storing text as it's typed

[magnetica]

Hi I have a comments box (textarea) on my site and want to know how to store the text written exactly as it's typed!

 

For example everything i'm writing here will appear as i've typed, all the line breaks will be in place etc... With my script it only stores the text and not any line breaks etc..

 

How do I do this? Do I need to create a parser to recognise line breaks?

[Barand]

If we can see how you are doing it, we may be able to see what's wrong.

[xylex]

Your script probably is storing line breaks, but a web browser doesn't display line breaks.

 

Try

 

<?php
$search = array("\r\n", "\n", "\r");
$replace = "\n<br />"

str_replace($search, $replace, $_POST['textarea']);

?>

 

If you want it to also break in the same soft breaks where the text wrapped to a new line in the text area, add wrap="hard" in the textarea tag.

[magnetica]

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

The str_replace function works well! Thanks

[Barand]

With my script it only stores the text and not any line breaks etc..

 

You mean you didn't check what was being stored in your db before posting that only text was being stored?