how to read spaces in a textarea box and replace it with   for the database

[takinduro]

Hi,

I would like to take a user's input, and store just as they write it in the textbox into my database. So basically, if a user enters test and then hits the space bar twice and then continues writing when they come back to view it, I would like it to display test, two spaces and then the rest of the text. any help would be greatly appreciated.

[pbmods]

Heya, Takinduro. Welcome to TSDN!

Have a look at htmlentities().

[EDIT: Never mind. That won't do it. You'll want to use a str_replace() instead:

$str = str_replace(' ', ' ', $str);
 

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[Atli]

If your intend for the message to be displayed in HTML, you can use <pre> tags. They will display text as it appears in a <textarea>, including all spaces, linebreaks, tabs and such.