Question

I am trying to do a line break after the message “Original message”, I have tried with this but It keeps showing me the

---Original message---<br />
message

<textarea id="txtMessage" rows="10" cols="50"><?php echo nl2br(str_replace('<br/>', " ","---Original message---\n".$array['message']));?></textarea>

I want something likes this:

---Original message---
message

any advise?

Answer 1

This should do what you want it to:

<?php echo str_replace('<br />', " ","---Original message---\n".$array['message']);?>

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nl2br — Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string (from php.net)

Example:

echo "<textarea>HI! \nThis is some String, \nit works fine</textarea>";

Result:

But if you try this:

echo nl2br("<textarea>HI! \nThis is some String, \nit works fine</textarea>");

you will get this:

Therefore you should not use nl2br before saving it to database, otherwise you have to get rid of <br /> every time you try to edit text! Just use it when you print it out as text.