Html special charachters

<form >
<td>
<textarea name="specification" cols="30" rows="20" ></textarea>
</td>
<tr>
<td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="ADD"></td>
</tr>
</form>


this is my form field and it takes input succesfully. but when displaying the result, the result contains many html special charachters like \nl,<br /> tags Which i donot want to display in the result page.

my output code is as follows

<tr>
<td><?php echo $specification; ?></td><td><?php echo (strtoupper(trim($model_by_id['specification']))) ;?></td>
</tr>


can anyone tell me that how to avoid displaying the html \nl,<br />,\r tags in the output.

suppose if i give input like:

INPUT:
a quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog.

Output:
a quick brown fox\nl
jumps over the lazy dog.

The thing is I donot want the \nl tag to showup. As it looks unusual

 

nl2br is a function to rename the \n to br

but you can also remove them by using str_replace("\n", "", $str)

 

this http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.nl2br.php should fix your issue

 

There is another problem. What ever i give input in the text area aforementioned the output always shows something like, if I give input like

INPUT :
specification : dsgnx
price : sdubsd

output gives result like this :
specification : dsgnx\r\n price: sdubsd\r\n

how can i remove these \r\n tags

 

There is another problem. What ever i give input in the text area aforementioned the output always shows something like, if I give input like

INPUT :
specification : dsgnx
price : sdubsd

output gives result like this :
specification : dsgnx\r\n price: sdubsd\r\n

how can i remove these \r\n tags

 

I wrote a "praragraphization" function that turns all \r\n's (and all their combos) into <p></p> - just change what you want the code to do below:

/*** PARAGRAPHIZE ***/
function paragraphize($string, $delimit = "\\r\\n") {
	$paragraphs = explode($delimit, $string);
	
	for($i = 0; $i<sizeof($paragraphs); $i++) {
		if($paragraphs[$i]) $paragraphs[$i] = '<p>'. $paragraphs[$i] .'</p>';
		else $paragraphs[$i] = "";
	}
	
	return implode('', $paragraphs);
}

Code (markup):

Ultimately all you have to do is remove the <p></p> parts and you should have it how you want it.