keep textarea input format after using mysql_real_escape_string to store

Question

I am using php5.3.6 and mysql 5.1.56 and CodeIgniter. Here is what I did.

1. Input some text in textarea, something like this:

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   what\'s this?

Answer 1

The Best Solution..

$insertdata = mysql_real_escape_string($string); (You can insert it in your database if you want)

echo stripslashes(str_replace('\r\n',PHP_EOL,$insertdata)); (The output is exactly as your input was)