Question

OK let’s say I have a textarea and I type in that textarea

Hello my name is
Frank and I like
to eat apples.

then when I hit submit button I get:

[Hello my name is]
[Frank and I like]
[to eat apples.]

See how every line is appended at the start and end with brackets?

Is there a way you can even do this in PHP?

Answer 1

Yes:

$output = '['.str_replace("\n", "]\n[", $input).']';

I’m not sure if a textarea sends \n or \r\n. If its the latter, just change \n to \r\n in the above.