Preserve Line Breaks From TextArea When Writing To MySQL

Question

I\'m using a textarea to enable users to input comments. However, if the users enters new lines, the new lines don\'t appear when they are outputted. Is there any way to m

Answer 1

i am using this two method steps for preserve same text which is in textarea to store in mysql and at a getting time i can also simply displaying plain text.....

step 1:

$status=$_POST['status'];<br/>
$textToStore = nl2br(htmlentities($status, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));

In query enter $textToStore....

step 2:

write code for select query...and direct echo values....

It works