How to format text from HTML textarea?

[deko]

I have a feedback form on my website with a textarea for visitors to type
comments, etc. Nothing special. When users click the "Send" button, the form
posts, and I copy the contents of the textarea to a file like this:

$feedback = trim($_POST['feedback_texta rea']);
$fp = fopen($feedback _file,'a');
fwrite($fp, $feedback);
fclose($fp);

The problem is the line breaks in the textarea are lost when copied to the file.

For example:

This is a line.

This is a new line.

This is another new line.

becomes:

This is a line. This is a new line. This is another new line.

And this:

This is a "test"

becomes:

This is a \"test\"

Is there a way to preserve line breaks and other formatting when coping to a
file from a HTML textarea?

[Jensen Somers]

Re: How to format text from HTML textarea?

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:56:39 -0700, deko wrote:

I have a feedback form on my website with a textarea for visitors to type
comments, etc. Nothing special. When users click the "Send" button, the form
posts, and I copy the contents of the textarea to a file like this:
>
$feedback = trim($_POST['feedback_texta rea']);
$fp = fopen($feedback _file,'a');
fwrite($fp, $feedback);
fclose($fp);
>
The problem is the line breaks in the textarea are lost when copied to the file.
>
For example:
>
This is a line.
>
This is a new line.
>
This is another new line.
>
becomes:
>
This is a line. This is a new line. This is another new line.
>
And this:
>
This is a "test"
>
becomes:
>
This is a \"test\"
>
Is there a way to preserve line breaks and other formatting when coping to a
file from a HTML textarea?

Use the nl2br() function when printing out that
information. (http://www.php.net/nl2br )

To remove the \ signs there is a function called strip_slashes() .

Regards,
Jensen

[deko]

Re: How to format text from HTML textarea?

>Is there a way to preserve line breaks and other formatting when coping to a

>file from a HTML textarea?

>
Use the nl2br() function when printing out that
information. (http://www.php.net/nl2br )
>
To remove the \ signs there is a function called strip_slashes() .

Thanks for the tip. This seems to do the trick:

$feedback = trim($_POST['feedback_texta rea']);
$feedback = nl2br($feedback );
$feedback = stripslashes($f eedback);

That was easy :)