Re: Processing newlines in a text area field

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Answer below!


Jason Pruim
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On Oct 13, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Stephen wrote:

> I have a web page with a form with a text area. I enter:
> 
> foo
> 
> 
> bar
> 
> PHP processes the POST and inserts the record into MySQL.
> 
> The database field is text.
> 
> I use PDO
> 
> For testing I have removed any processing of the text area content.
> 
> Now, no matter how many blank rows I have between foo and bar, in the database record, I always get a single newline character.
> 
> I am using Firefox 7.0.1.
> 
> Is this normal behaviour? I want to be able to enter more than 1 newline.

It could possibly be just not displaying it properly in the webpage... try running the output through: nl2br(); and see if that helps.


> 
> Thanks
> Stephen
> 
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