Question

I have a textarea for an address within a CMS module – when I update the text it adds extra spaces to it in the database. All I am doing is adding text to the initial line, pressing Enter to add the new line.

Each time I update it seems to add extra spaces, any ideas why?

P.S I should note I am using Codeigniter v2

Answer 1

You should just be able trim() the textarea data before you add it to the db.

$data = trim($this->input->post('textarea_field'));