php :: new line in textarea?

Question

How do you create a new line in a textarea when inserting the text via php?

I thought it was \\n but that gets literally printed in the textarea.

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Answer 1

PHP Side: from Textarea string to PHP string

$newList = ereg_replace( "\n",'|', $_POST['theTextareaContents']);

PHP Side: PHP string back to TextArea string:

$list = str_replace('|', '
', $r['db_field_name']);

Answer 2

Carriage Return

\n 
\r
<br />
^M

Answer 3

i have used \p for text files. try

Answer 4

Without seeing your code I cannot be sure, but my guess is you are using single quotes ('\n') instead of double quotes ("\n").

PHP will only evaluate escape sequences if the string is enclosed in double quotes. If you use '\n', PHP will just take that as a literal string. If you use "\n", PHP will parse the string for variables and escape sequences and print a new line like you are expecting.