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Preserving whitespace from bp profile fields

@terraling

Participant

11 years, 8 months ago

Sorry, I feel such a newb asking this, but it’s currently defeating me, so…

I have an “About you” profile field which has the format Multi-Line Text Area.

If the user writes a little about themselves and includes line-breaks, it looks as expected in the database table.

Any variation of BuddyPress functions I use to retrieve the field for display in a template (e.g. $about = xprofile_get_field_data( 14, $user_id );) gives the same result when echoed.

The raw source HTML has the linebreaks, but the whitespace including linebreaks is of course ignored when rendered on-screen.

I know there are all kinds of text escaping functions and presumably I should be using one of them, but I don’t know where to start if anyone has any tips (or links to good reference material or tutorials).

Thanks

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@henrywright

Moderator

11 years, 8 months ago

Hi @terraling

Take a look at the first few lines in bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-filters.php

There’s lots of filters in place that act on the xprofile field value. Could be one of them?

@terraling

Participant

11 years, 8 months ago

No, even if I bypass BP completely and construct a direct SQL query to return the field I have the same problem.

It’s not really a BP thing, it’s very basic and why I feel a bit sheep-ish asking. I might be better off asking on SO…

@henrywright

Moderator

11 years, 8 months ago

No, even if I bypass BP completely and construct a direct SQL query to return the field I have the same problem.

Humm, that rules out something like wp_filter_nohtml_kses acting on the returned value. SO is a good place to ask actually – hopefully someone over there can help out.

@terraling

Participant

11 years, 8 months ago

God bless WordPress (and google).

Don’t suppose many people have heard of it, but there is a function wpautop() which wraps text sections in <p> tags to preserve linebreaks.

Thanks for your input @henrywright

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