Add linebreak to text from Symfony2 Form Textarea

Question

I have a Form with Symfony 2 with a textarea.

If the user writes something like this in the textarea

word1

word2 word3 word4
word5

rest of message

i'm getting the data exactly like this from the form, but without any HTML linebreaks. So if i want to use this text further for sending a email it'll be shown as this

word1 word3 word4 word5 rest of message

How can i save the formatting of the Text? Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you are wanting to use this in a Twig template then you should use the nl2br filter like..

{{ text|nl2br }} // NOT "bl2br" as I had originally written.

Answer 2

You can use nl2br function:

$text = nl2br($text);

echo $text;