Preserve Line Breaks From TextArea When Writing To MySQL

Question

I\'m using a textarea to enable users to input comments. However, if the users enters new lines, the new lines don\'t appear when they are outputted. Is there any way to m

Answer 1

Two solutions for this:

1. PHP function nl2br():

   e.g.,

   echo nl2br("This\r\nis\n\ra\nstring\r");
   
   // will output
   This
   
   is
   
   a
   
   string
   
   

2. Wrap the input in

   tags.

   See: W3C Wiki - HTML/Elements/pre