Is there a way to echo a cariage return in TextArea box

[ljCharlie]

Is there a way to put a carieage return in textarea? In PHP, I want to echo a cariage return in a TextArea box. Any help is appreciated!

ljCharlie

 

[mweinstock]

use \r\n

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[jimoblak]

Also check out the PHP function print nl2br

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

If this function does not help, the alternatives mentioned in the user comments at the bottom of that web page should.

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[ljCharlie]

Thank you everyone for helping me out. It's working. The \n has worked wonderfully.

Again, thanks!

ljCharlie

 

[cs7536]

the best way is nl2br function it will put them in as you typed them in.

print nl2br($nameosyourtable or $field);

that will do the trick
this way it interprets php's nl to html's <br>

Hope this helps
Max

Nothing is hard when you realy want to learn it.

Max

 

[mweinstock]

nl2br() will not do what he's asking. He's not trying to put br's in. He wants to put line breaks into plain text in a textbox, not in HTML.

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[cs7536]

you should look again cause it does put new lines in a text box.. I do it all the time with the code I just wrote up top for him..


Best Regards
Max

Nothing is hard when you realy want to learn it.

Max

 

[mweinstock]

Can you explain that to me? What is going to be replaced? nl2br() replaces newline characters with <br>. If he's trying to PUT a nl/cr into a textarea, what are you suggesting nl2br() will replace with <br>'s?

I assume he's looking to do something like this:

<textarea>This is a \r\ntest.</textarea>

To get the following:

This is a 
test

What would the parameters for nl2br() be?

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[ljCharlie]

Thanks for all your help but it's working now by using the \n. Here's what I did.

echo '<textarea name=&quot;photoOrder&quot; rows=&quot;10&quot; cols=&quot;50&quot; id=&quot;photoOrder&quot;>'.$photoOrderd.'</textarea>';

And it works fine now. I'm not so sure about the nl2br() because I have not used since the \n has worked.

ljCharlie