Textarea doesn't count new lines in PHP

Question

I have a textarea that takes some strings that user gave it and post it to another PHP file to save in into DB.

The process works completely fine but when I extract what user typed in the textarea from my DB the text shows without the enters / breaks that user give in the textarea before.

For example, if the user writes:

'hi guys 
my name is '

it shows when i extract it like this:

'hi guys my name is'

Where is the enter that I put in first place?

How can I fix this it doesn't work on either Chrome or Firefox?

Please at least post the code of how you save your data and how you're outputting it — sidyll, Sep 19 '16 at 12:52
Possible duplicate of [line breaks in a textarea](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6480655/line-breaks-in-a-textarea) — Sherif, Sep 19 '16 at 12:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '16 at 12:53

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You can use function nl2br() like below:

echo nl2br("hi guys my name is");

answered Sep 19 '16 at 12:53

Suresh Kamrushi

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yeah it works but appears as a normal text in the body of the page – Mohamed Salem Sep 19 '16 at 13:02
like 'hi guys
my name is' – Mohamed Salem Sep 19 '16 at 13:03

Textarea doesn't count new lines in PHP

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