Php $_POST method to get textarea value

Question

I am using php to get textarea value using post method but getting a weird result with that let me show you my code

Answer 1

Use htmlspecialchars():

echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['contact_list']);

You can even improve your form processing by stripping all tags with strip_tags() and remove all white spaces with trim():

function processText($text) {
    $text = strip_tags($text);
    $text = trim($text);
    $text = htmlspecialchars($text);
    return $text;
}

echo processText($_POST['contact_list']);