Multiline text areas

Hi,

I'm having problems formatting text areas so that when an email is sent, it preserves line breaks / paragraphs breaks. I've come across this previous topic, but I can't seem to get it to work.

At the moment, I've got a textarea called 'message'. When we have a query through our website, if anyone puts linebreaks/paragraph breaks into the text area box, all their text gets formatted into one long line.

I've looked at the various options suggested (hacking chronoconfig.php etc.) but can't seem to get anything working.

The best option seemed to be inserting:

<?php $_POST['Message'] = str_replace("\n","<br />",$_POST['Message']); ?>

in the 'On Submit Code - before sending email' box, but this didn't work.

Any help would be most gratefully received! [file name=Messaging.cfbak size=3709]http://www.chronoengine.com/images/fbfiles/files/Messaging.cfbak[/file]

Hi raj12ad,

Search the forums for 'nl2br' that's the php function to use - you'll find several examples (some of the old code postings are still broken though).

Bob

After hunting through the board, I did find a few suggestions, but in the end I found this very simple bit of php which seems to work:

This is a snippet from my Form HTML:

<label><br />
Your message:</label>
<br /><textarea cols="80" rows="15" class="text_area" id="message" name="Message">
</textarea>

And in my Email template:

<p>From: {Name} / {Email} </p>
<p>Sent to: {Recipient} </p>
<p>Date: <?php echo date("d/m/y H:i:s", time());?><br />
---</p>
<p> </p>
<?php
print nl2br($_POST['Message']);
?>
<p></p>

It's a very simple email template, but it inserts a timestamp, and also formats the textarea, 'Message', so that any paragraph breaks the user entered on the form are reinserted. I'm sure there's a more elegant solution (I'm not saving my results into a database - just sending to an email address).

Hope this helps someone!

Hi raj12ad,

Excellent, a very nice solution.

Bob