Store formatted text

[xiao]

How can I store text with linebreaks in them from a text area, and later echo them back in a PHP page?

(I don't need colors and bold etc, only the linebreaks)

[pocobueno1388]

Use nl2br() when displaying the row from the database.

www.php.net/nl2br

[xiao]

and how would you echo that in a textarea?

 

Because I use

<code>

<?php echo nl2br($str); ?>

</code>

 

And I still have \r\n\r\n in the string.

[SnowControl]

Save it to the database with the /n as linebreaks.

 

When you output to a form, dont use any special functions, it will automatically add newlines for each /n it finds.

 

When outputting to html (printing it on your page), use the nl2br() function. ( echo nl2br($text) )

[xiao]

And if I don't save it to a DB yet?

When my form validator gives an error, I use sessions to print the entered info back into the form.

But when I use nl2br($str) it uses \r\n\r\n

and when I just echo $str I still get \r\n\r\n

 

I'm using

<textarea><?php echo $str; ?></textarea>