Retain Whitespace through textarea/js/ftp_fput

[bmetter]

Hi there, and thanks in advance for any replies.

I'm trying to have a user put text (with carriage returns and general formatting) in a textarea with the ID of 'data'. A submit button then passes that through javascript-

<input type='button' value="Save" onclick="javascript:loadXMLDoc('div','read.php?k='+document.getElementById('data').value)></input>

for simplicity, this is 'read.php', assume connection has been made etc, all that you need to know is $contents contains the $_GET['k'] passed though a function.

fwrite($tmp, $contents);
rewind($tmp);
ftp_fput($this->con, $remote_file, $tmp, FTP_ASCII,0);

Somewhere along the line, I lose the newlines and formatting. Any help? I'll include full code if required, but I think that should be enough....if you need any at all.

[bmetter]

ANSWER:
urlencode the data before passing it ;)