Inserting text from textarea into MySQL database without losing formatting

Question

I am trying to add text from a textarea on my site into a MySQL database.

Below is the PHP code that is adding the text to the database.

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Answer 1

Your text, unless you're using a rich-text editor, such as Mark-down (as here on Stackoverflow), is styled by your CSS, not by the contents of the textarea itself.

If the problem is preservation of new-lines, then you could run the string through the nl2br($text) function before storing in, or retrieving from, the database.

I'd suggest on retrieval would be better, but that's just my opinion (and I can't offer any evidence to back it up).

Answer 2

Or you can use

echo nl2br($test);