Retaining line breaks when adding task description via PHP API?

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Joshua Hay

• January 04, 2016 12:42

I am using a textarea form field and sending it via GET to a PHP file that adds a task via the API.

I cannot figure out how to get the line breaks in my textarea field to be retained when adding the contents as a description on the task created.

E.g.

"this
is

lines"

becomes

"thisis lines" (or similar)

 

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  Casper Fabricius

  • January 11, 2016 09:23

  Ah yes, that makes sense. Submitting via GET would do that. Why don't you just use POST?

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  Casper Fabricius

  • January 05, 2016 09:04

  Hi Joshua,

  Using regular escaped linebreaks should work just fine. I.e. send "this\nis\nlines" to the API.

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  Joshua Hay

  • January 11, 2016 03:14

  I know this is probably a weird workaround but what I ended up doing to get it working was to use a javascript function to convert all \n type characters to HTML <br/> tags before sending the textarea contents through as GET variables via AJAX to my PHP script. Then the PHP script replaces all <br/> tags with \n again before submitting to the Podio API. Otherwise, I found that the line breaks were removed completely when submitting textarea.val() via AJAX as GET variables.

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  Joshua Hay

  • January 14, 2016 12:06

  Because I'm crazy, Casper, because I'm crazy.

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