Question

I have in database a string like : First line\r\nSecond Line.
But when I put this text in textarea the \r\n appears and there is no carraige return.

So how to add a carriage return in textarea ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I guess your database already contains a replacement character for the backslash and r or n. This would be not that good. Please make sure you are saving a real line break there. Then everything would be fine and you wouldn’t need an extra replacement.

If you cannot change that, you can replace them back using this:

$str = preg_replace('/(\\\r)?\\\n/', "\n", $str);