nl2br()

Hi,

I have a textarea in my form with the database field schema corresponding to it defined as longtext. My problem is that the information I am entering into the textarea has to be entered using <br> tags.

For example:

I am making entries of possible majors in the textarea. So I have to type in...

<br>Accounting
<br>Computer Science
<br>Engineering

... to make everything print out in a separate line. I have been told there's an easier way to do this -- by using the nl2br() function in PHP.

Does anyone know about this? How is it implemented and how does it work?

Any help is much appreciated since I don't want my data entry person wasting time with <br> tags for every new line.

Thanks,
Sonya

In the script where you process the form, before entering in the database just do:

$now_br=nl2br($text_area_variable_name);

and insert the $now_br variable into the table

Thanks Rod, makes sense.

Another way is ofcourse to use the nl2br() AFTER a MySql fetch, before you are going to display it, like:

$arr = nl2br($row->something);
echo "$arr";

This leaves the database free of html tags, which makes later editing of the post less anoying (especially in longer text files)

kÅ


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