php html into db table

[bradkenyon]

got a question, say you have a textarea, and you put content in there and throw it into a db table, then display it on webpage, if the user hits enter to put a line break in the textarea box of the form, how do i tell it to put it into the db as a line break, and display it on the webpage as a line break.

[cooldude832]

break line such as \n\r or a html break line <br />

[bradkenyon]

i am making a quick content management system and i want to allow the user to press enter within the text field (textarea) and it will create a line break, like you would in any typical word processor. So it will display the content they typed into the field as w/ the line break from when they pressed enter.

 

i hope i didn't make it too confusing.

[quickstopman]

this always worked for me for line breaks!!!

function line_break($str) {
str_replace("
", "<br>", $str);
echo $str;
}

hope that works for ya

so to implement it

make $textarea

line_break($textarea);

 

-Zack

[bradkenyon]

what about paragraph breaks?

[discomatt]

nl2br is your best best for this.

 

If you want paragraph breaks as well, trying using regex

 

<?php

$regex = array (
    '/(\\r\\n\\r\\n|\\n\\n)/',
    '/(\\r\\n|\\n)(?!\\r\\n|\\n)/',
    '/_NL_/'
);
$replace = array (
    "</p>_NL_<p>",
    "<br />_NL_",
    "\n"
);

$subject = 'This is a
new line

This is a new
paragraph

Another
paragraph';

$result = preg_replace($regex, $replace, $subject);

echo "<p>$result</p>";


?>