Insert break

**neo_philiac** · 09-02-2008, 04:21 PM

What I am trying to do is simple. When I get the data from a text area in a textbox in a form , here is what I am doing to put it in a doc file.

Code:

$resume = $_POST['resume'];

$profile = $_POST['lname']."_"."Profile".$filedate.".doc";
$profile = fopen($profile, "w") or die( "Error opening file" );

flock ($profile, LOCK_EX);  

$doc_content = "<html><head></head><body>
				<b>Resume: </b> <br> $resume <br>
				</body></html>";


fwrite ($profile, $doc_content);

Since it is a multiline text area, MS Word ignores the breaks in the text area.

so if i put:

Code:

Since it 
is a multiline 
text area.

It shows as

Code:

Since it is a multiline text area.

I think the way to get that is to take it (textarea) in an array and then append a break tag (<br>) at the end of each line. Am I in the right direction? If so, how do i do it?

Thanks

**BLiZZaRD** · 09-02-2008, 04:26 PM

PHP Code:


echo' < /br>;

PHP Code:


echo "$resume\n";

"\n" is parsed as new line, or line break. Or you can just force a <br> into the HTML (top option)

The newline passed in an echo or print() is sent to the browser as
string information, not formatting information. You need a <BR> tag in
your code to create a line break in HTML.

You can also use the nl2br(string myoutput) function to turn newlines
into <BR> tags.

PHP Code:


nl2br("......\n");

**neo_philiac** · 09-02-2008, 05:19 PM

Thank you! nl2br() work perfectly.

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