How to put back text on textarea, which was saved in session with line breaks.

Question

I'm trying to keep textbox, select option and textarea values, after submit form without clicking on the reCAPTCHA box. It will keep the textbox, select option and textarea as i wish. but when the textarea has line breaks it will not appear text in the textarea.

php

<?php 
session_start(); 
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){ 
    if(isset($_POST['g-recaptcha-response'])){
        //your site secret key
        $secret = 'site secret key';
        //get verify response data
        $verifyResponse = file_get_contents('https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret='.$secret.'&response='.$_POST['g-recaptcha-response']);
        $responseData = json_decode($verifyResponse);
        //contact form submission code            
        $name       = $_POST['username'];
        $replyto    = $_POST['emailadd'];
        $subject    = $_POST['selectOption'];
        $message    = nl2br($_POST['message']);

        $_SESSION['username'] = $name;            
        $_SESSION['replyto'] = $replyto;            
        $_SESSION['subject'] = $subject;
        $_SESSION['message'] = $message;  

        if($responseData->success){
            $email      = "info@email.com"; 
            $to         = "info@email.com"; 
            $headers = 'From:'.$name.' <'.$email.'>'."\r\n".'Reply-To:'.$replyto. "\r\n".'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
            mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); 
            $succMsg = 'Your contact request have submitted successfully.';
            session_destroy();
            echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('$succMsg'); window.location = '/'; </script>";       
        }
        else{
            $flag = 1; 
            echo "<script type='text/javascript'>window.location = '#contactus';</script>";
        }
    }
    else{
        $flag = 1;
        echo "<script type='text/javascript'>window.location = '#contactDiv';</script>"; 
    }
}?>

< script type = "text/javascript" >
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#errorcaptcha").hide();
    var flag = '<?php echo $flag; ?>';
    var usernmae = "<?php if(isset($_SESSION['username'])){echo $_SESSION['username'];} ?>";//working fine
    var email = "<?php if(isset($_SESSION['replyto'])){echo $_SESSION['replyto'];} ?>";//working fine
    var subject = "<?php if(isset($_SESSION['subject'])){echo $_SESSION['subject'];} ?>";//working fine
    var message = "<?php if(isset($_SESSION['message'])){echo $_SESSION['message'];} ?>"; //error here, works when without line breaks text 

    if (flag == 1) {
      $("#errorcaptcha").show();
      $('#username').val(usernmae);
      $('#emailadd').val(email);
      $('#selectOption').val(subject);
      $('#message').val(message);
    }
  }); < /script>

  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <html lang="en">
  <body id="page-top">
    <form id="contactfrom" method="post">
      <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-sm-12">
          <input class="form-control" name="username" id="username" maxlength="40" required="required" type="text" placeholder="Your name" value="" />            </div>
      </div>
      <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-sm-12">
          <input class="form-control" id="emailadd" name="emailadd" required="required" type="email" maxlength="50" placeholder="Your email" />
        </div>
      </div>
      <label for="username" class="uname" data-icon="u">Inquiry about</label>
      <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-sm-12">
          <select name="selectOption" id="selectOption" class="form-control">
            <option value="1" selected="">1</option>
            <option value="2">2</option>
            <option value="3">3</option>
            <option value="4">4</option>
            <option value="5">5</option>
            <option value="6">6</option>
            <option value="7">7</option>
            <option value="8">8</option>
          </select>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-sm-12">
          <textarea maxlength="500" id="message" name="message" placeholder="Massage" class="form-control" rows="5" required="required"></textarea>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div>
      </div>
      <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-sm-12">
          <label id="errorcaptcha" for="">Please click on the reCAPTCHA box.</label>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-sm-12" id="recaptcha">
          <div class="g-recaptcha" data-theme="dark" data-sitekey="sitekey"></div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-sm-12">
          <button type="submit" name="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
        </div>
      </div>
    </form>
  </body>

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 23 '16 at 19:17

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Store in session you original $_POST['message']:

Replace

 $message    = nl2br($_POST['message']);

with

 $message    = $_POST['message'];

Then after format for your e-mail with nl2br:

mail($to,$subject,nl2br($message),$headers);

answered Nov 23 '16 at 19:17

Felippe Duarte

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here mail function is working with line breaks. But when i put message in to textarea(when captcha fail) it not appear. – Geeth Welagedara Nov 24 '16 at 10:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Finally i found my own way. textarea doesn't have a value. helpful link here

<textarea maxlength="500" id="message" type="text" name="message" placeholder="Massage" class="form-control" rows="5" required="required"><?php echo isset($_POST['message']) ? htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']):'' ?></textarea>

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Nov 24 '16 at 18:43

Geeth Welagedara

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How to put back text on textarea, which was saved in session with line breaks.

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