Retaining Paragraphs and Spaces on my database

[triplee02]

Am currently designing a website for a company and the problem i gat is dat the form i created for the employees. saves all letters and alpabets on one line. the enter key does not space the information. i hope somebody understand me. for example if i type:
hello pls kal

mr john.

it will save as hello pls kal mr john.. without the break line.


pls help

[ReazulIqbal]

Use

<textarea></textarea> 

in place of

<input type="text" /> 

to get text like that

[GumSlone]

is there some filter which replaces line breaks before it adds the text to the database?
something similar like:

$str = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), '', $str); 

if not, to show line breaks from database the same way in html you have to use a code like this:

$str = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), '<br/>', $str); 

[Ghost]

is there some filter which replaces line breaks before it adds the text to the database?
something similar like:

$str = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), '', $str); 

if not, to show line breaks from database the same way in html you have to use a code like this:

$str = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), '<br/>', $str); 

just a question but wouldnt it be just as easy to do something like:

$post = nl2br($post);
//
//
// 

??

obviously $post var = their own post variable.

as far as i know this does basically same thing. turning new lines into <br/> also.

[GumSlone]

just a question but wouldnt it be just as easy to do something like:

$post = nl2br($post);
//
//
// 

??

obviously $post var = their own post variable.

as far as i know this does basically same thing. turning new lines into <br/> also.

yes, you are right your solution is better, this function was made specially to insert html line break into the text.

[Ghost]

yes, you are right your solution is better, this function was made specially to insert html line break into the text.

came up with a really nice solution to a flat file writing problem when using nl2br by adding it to a modded version of gumslones.

using nl2br with txt files makes your text look like this inside the .txt file:

this is<br />
a trial message<br />
that im producing to<br />
use as an example.

taking up 4 lines in the .txt file.
(when trying to show to users it may look like its coming from 1 post, but it takes up a count of 4 posts in total)

by modding gumslones code and using nl2br you can produce this inside the .txt file:

this is<br/>a trial message<br/>that im producing to<br/>use as an example.

ramming everything on 1 line and once again counting as 1 post total. so the display structure is always correct.

heres what i did.

/** Call Cleanse Function And <br /> All \r\n \r \n With nl2br */
$Post = nl2br(Cleanse($_POST['post']));
/** Remove \r\n \r \n From <br /> Tags That nl2br Seem To Leave Behind. */
$Post = str_replace(array("<br />\r\n", "<br />\n", "<br />\r"), '<br/>', $Post); 
//
//
// 

Cleanse() is just a function i got for cleaning the posts also.

[arnage]

You can use php end of line, it remains \n in markup but must be in double quotes. If you don't want it change those in single quotes. Btw i don't like nl2br because its white space, i like <br/> not <br />.

str_replace(PHP_EOL, "<br/>", $var); 

or...

$Post = str_replace(PHP_EOL, "<br/>", Cleanse($_POST['post'])); 

[Ghost]

You can use php end of line, it remains \n in markup but must be in double quotes. If you don't want it change those in single quotes. Btw i don't like nl2br because its white space, i like <br/> not <br />.

str_replace(PHP_EOL, "<br/>", $var); 

or...

$Post = str_replace(PHP_EOL, "<br/>", Cleanse($_POST['post'])); 

thats why i added the:

$Post = str_replace(array("<br />\r\n", "<br />\n", "<br />\r"), '<br/>', $Post); 
//
//
// 

after using nl2br, not only does it remove the hidden new lines it leaves next to the <br />
tags but it also turns <br /> into <br/> and cleans it up

thanks for the input though

[arnage]

Np. Cool.