Escaping user input and losing newlines in forum posts

[dnenb]

Hey guys, I have a quesiton about the formatting of posts in the mccode v2 forum. It looks like the posts are stored without any newlines in the database, and I'm not sure they're being removed. Is it the magic-quotes codeblock in globals.php?

My problem is this: A player writes a post like this

blablabla

blabla

bla

But when reading the post in the forum it looks like

blablabla blabla bla

[Dayo]

when out puting the text do it like this

echo nl2br($database['text']);

[dnenb]

when out puting the text do it like this

echo nl2br($database['text']);

Doesn't work as there doesn't seem to be any \n's (or similar) in what's inputted into the db.

[KyleMassacre]

have you thought of a wysiwyg editor?

[dnenb]

Nah I haven't. Suggestions?

[KyleMassacre]

Nah I haven't. Suggestions?

Yeah. Use one :p

There is on that's plug and play pretty much. at tinymce.com

[Dayo]

i have used http://nicedit.com/ in the past but it outputs html so not so good for forums

[KyleMassacre]

or maybe http://www.sceditor.com

[Script47]

This is just a thought, maybe the output is being trimmed?

[Dave]

have you thought of a wysiwyg editor?

Remember you'll still need to sanitize the text before you start passing it into your database.

[dnenb]

I will look at a wysiwyg-editor, but I have a feeling that will come with problems for some of my mobile players. As for my original question: Do any of you know why I'm not getting the newlines into the db? Is it the magic-quotes in globals.php?

 

This is just a thought, maybe the output is being trimmed?

Where do you mean? I think whatever the user inputs goes through some function that removes newlines before it gets in my db.

[Script47]

Where do you mean? I think whatever the user inputs goes through some function that removes newlines before it gets in my db.

Well the trim() function removes any white spaces so that might your issue, check if you can find that.

Edited October 4, 2013 by Script47

[KyleMassacre]

if it is trim you can do:

trim($str, "/n");