I need a function to prosses my textarea field input before I save it in my database.
Textarea field input:
Hi
sahdj sdhjsdj f hasjhf ash dsdhasd hjsdhjashdhsadj sjsadhjsdhjhassdnsdnnjas
Thanks
I want to make it look like this:
Hi<p></p>sahdj sdhjsdj f hasjhf ash dsdhasd hjsdhjashdhsadj sjsadhjsdhjhassdnsdnnjas<p></p>Thanks
Just want to replace line break with a <p></p>.
nl2br will only replace newline characters with <br />. On most of my sites I want to wrap the lines in p-tags. You could achieve this this way:
$lines = explode("\n",$_POST['textarea_name']);
$output = '';
foreach ($lines as $v) {
$output .= '<p>'.$v.'</p>';
}
If you want to remove the HTML use the strip_tags() function against the $_POST variable from the textarea's name attribute in the HTML. e.g.:
$textarea_input = strip_tags($_POST['html_name_attrib']);
The PHP Manual gives more info on that function. If you're talking about protection against SQL injection use the real_escape_string function for mysql or mysqli. Info here and example:
$protected_value = $mysqli_conn->real_escape_string($_POST['html_name_attrib']);
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You're not talking about using str_replace("\n", "<br/><br/>", $_POST['html_name_attrib']) to simply change the soft line breaks with HTML line breaks are you?
$array = explode("\n", $_POST['html_name_attrib']); and then foreach($array as $line){ $string .= '<p>' . $line . '</p>'; }
output onlyformattingnl2br();not database formatting{}toolbar button.nl2br()...?! I always did it manually (so thanks!)preg_replace("/\r?\n/", '<p></p>', $string);