textarea to array preserving line breaks 2

CliveC · Jan 30, 2005

Without having to modify TEST1.HTM, can anyone think of a way in TEST1.PHP to capture the four lines in a string array that would be accessible by line number and which would preserve line breaks and blank lines?

Code:

TEST1.HTM
<html><body>
<form name="mail" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
 action="test1.php">
Message:<br /> 
<textarea name="t" rows="6" cols="36">
line-1
line-2

line-4
</textarea><br />
<input value="Send" type="submit" />
</form></body></html>

Code:

<?php
$line=array();
$text=$_POST['t'];
?>

Clive

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ericbrunson · Jan 30, 2005

Something like:

Code:

$lines = explode( $text, "\n" );

You may have to play with the newline character.

predamarcel · Jan 30, 2005

you can try:

$text_array = explode("\n", $text);

this will preseve empty lines (I think).
If you want also the breaklines, you have to add "\n" at the end of each element of array.

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CliveC · Jan 30, 2005

<?php
$text=$_POST['t'];
$line = explode("\n", $text);
echo ($line[0].'<br />');
echo ($line[1].'<br />');
echo ($line[2].'<br />');
echo ($line[3].'<br />');
?>

Works great! Thanks!

Clive

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http://PalliativeCareConsulting.org

predamarcel · Jan 30, 2005

in this case I recomand, to use nl2br():

<?php
echo nl2br($text);

?>

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textarea to array preserving line breaks 2

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