Question

How to insert nl2br function with htmlspecialchars? I have a site where input is taken from textarea and nl2br is used to convert next line to a paragraph. When I tried with htmlspecialchars I got the below output. Here I wrote three ‘test’ words in textarea and saved in database. I am using htmlspecialchars to prevent html injections but because of this function nl2br function is not working. Can you tell be how to work around this problem?

test<br/>test<br/>test<br/>

Answer 1

yo do:

htmlspecialchars(nl2br($text));

you need:

nl2br(htmlspecialchars($text));