Question

i have one text area

        <textarea name="message" id="message" class="text_field" style="height:200px; width:500px"></textarea>

if i type data in the text area like this

        hello
        this is my test message

        bye
        'abc'

i use following statement to get data from text area

     var message = $('#message').attr('value');

i pass this value to other php file like

      var data = {message:message};
 $.ajax({
 type: "POST",
 url: "show.php",
 data: data,
 etc

when i see data in post value firebug in show exactly i type the data (with new lines & spaces etc)
and in php file

          $message=$_POST['message'];

           $Content = file_get_contents($temp_page);
           $Content = str_replace('%%a%%', $message, $Content);

now when i use

             echo $Content

i get all the text in one line not exact i type in text area…

          hello this is my test message bye 'abc'

Thanks

Answer 1

That is because browsers don’t print newlines outside textareas or other elements that are defined to print the output as is, for example <pre>.

You need to use echo nl2br($Content); to substitute newlines with <br /> elements, which is the equivalent of a newline in (x)HTML.