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

Here is what I use

$textToStore = nl2br(htmlentities($inputText, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));

$inputText is the text provided by either the form or textarea. $textToStore is the returned text from nl2br and htmlentities, to be stored in your database. ENT_QUOTES will convert both double and single quotes, so you'll have no trouble with those.