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Jan 24.2006

I am setting up a cms and was wondering if php had a function to keep the space of line breaks and spaces a user enters into a text area, so I could add paragraph breaks as they would choose.

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@bokehJan 24.2006 — In a <textarea> that information will be passed to the server.
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@marcato15authorJan 24.2006 — How can I change the space then into characters so I can store it in a database and keep the space.
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@bokehJan 24.2006 — Maybe like this:[code=php]$field = preg_replace('/[r]?[n]/', '<br>', trim($_POST['field']));[/code]
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@marcato15authorJan 25.2006 — It did work.
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@NogDogJan 25.2006 — Also see the [url=http://www.php.net/nl2br]nl2br() function[/url].
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