texts as is....

[daimous]

can anybody pls help me....
suppose i have a textarea and i inputed some text
like below...

|----------------|
| daimous |
| the |
| great!!! |
| |
| |
|----------------|

how can i display the texts exactly the same as above not like this..

output: daimous <br/>the<br/>great!!!

by the way i use the functions htmlentities cause i want to Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities so that when my user
input a text like this..
--------------------------------
i am <br> a user...
--------------------------------

it will display exactly the same as,
--------------------------------
output: i am <br> a user...
--------------------------------

not this one...
--------------------------------
i am
a user...
--------------------------------


tnx! in advance!!!!

[dreamcatcher]

Converting line breaks might work. Do you want to re-display the data in your text area?

Try:

$text = str_replace("<br/>", "\r\n", $text);

[scragar]

huh?

have you tried using nl2br(txt); or do you want to go in the oposite direction?

I though I understood it when I first read it but after re-reading it I'm confused as to which you want:

turn <b>txt</b> into txt on the page or the other way around?

[daimous]

to rephrase my question..suppossing i have entered the text below to my Textarea...

---------------------
daimous <br> the
<p><b>great... this is
a text...
--------------------

and i named my TEXTAREA as message(<TEXTAREA name='message'>)
the question is..how can i display the text exactly the same as above when i try to display it to other page...in other words how can i display the text i have entered above exactly the same as it is..

hope this would help to understand my question...

page1.php
-------TEXTAREA-----------------
daimous <br> the
great!!! this <p>
a <b> text.
--------------------------------

and when i submit the form from page1.php to page2.php
i want it to display the text exactly as above.

pgae2.php
---------TEXTAREA---------------
daimous <br> the
great!!! this <p>
a <b> text.
--------------------------------

[pyro]

htmlspecialchars() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php) and nl2br() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php)?

[the tree]

I think your asking two questions.

To change your users line breaks to <br/> then nl2br($str); and to change thier < and > to entities of the same thing then...
$badcode = array ('<','>');
$goodcode = array ('&lt;','&gt;');

str_replace ($badcode,$goodcode,$string);

[NogDog]

Originally posted by pyro
htmlspecialchars() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php) and nl2br() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php)?
To amplify, I think what you would do is:

echo(nl2br(htmlspecialchars($message)));

[daimous]

I used these fucntions --> nl2br(htmlentities($var_message))

though it outputed the text below exactly as it is from the Original Source...

SOurce:
-----------------------
daimous <br> the
great!!! this <p>
a <b> text.
-----------------------


output:
-----------------------
daimous <br> the<br />
great!!! this <p><br />
a <b> text.
-------------------------

but it added something like, (<br />)..how can I eliminate the (<br />) thing....pls help me...tnx! in advance!!!