Question

All,
I have a textarea that someone can type in. When I submit the form and insert in into my database I do it like this:

$textarea = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['textarea']);

When I display the output I do it like this:

echo stripslashes($textarea);

However when I do it this way it removes the returns from the textarea. When I try and edit the textarea from mySQL though it puts the returns back in. Any idea why this would be?

Answer 1

You can use nl2br in this way:

echo nl2br($textarea);

If you need more info, this is the official documentation page: link.