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How to read a html textarea line by line with PHP ?

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Little_Piggies

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Sep 18, 2011, 03:10:17 PM

silly question here, probably an easy answer but I have an html form with a textarea. In the textarea, named "friends" a user can enter a list of friend's names line by line.

How do I read each individual line using php so that I can get each friend name and perform some action on it?

Ozric

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Sep 18, 2011, 06:20:57 PM

easy...

You want to pull the textarea into an array and use foreach to iterate through it.

Code:

$friends = preg_split( "/[\r\n]+|,/", trim($_REQUEST['friends']) );

foreach ($friends as $friend ){

// do something with $friend here

}

Good luck

Little_Piggies

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Sep 19, 2011, 11:13:23 PM

ha! worked like a charm ! thanks a million

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