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Question

I am implementing a contact form. When the user submits the form, all input is validated and stored in a session. It is then forwarded to a page that informs the user of a successfully posting of the comment, displaying the data entered.

The trouble I am having is that all new lines are not being displyed correctly as breaks using nl2br() .

User input:

<textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="50" id="comments" tabindex="5" title="comments"> <?php echo isset($_POST['comments']) ? $_POST['comments'] : ''; ?>

when validated...

$_SESSION['comments'] = $_POST['comments'];

forwarded on to contact-sent page and then appended to the string to display

$forwardString = "<h2>New Website Comment: </h2><h3>" . $cEmail . "</h3><p>" . $cComment . "</p>";

Then displayed:

echo nl2br($forwardString);

Where do I implement the nl2br() function?

Example input:

Just a test to verify contact works correctly.

We should see two line breaks here.
One line break here

Currently yields:

Just a test to verify contact works correctly.We should see two line breaks here.One line break here

Answer 1

try

echo nl2br(stripslashes($forwardString));

You could be possibly escaping the string twice so the \\n becomes \\n