storing text in different rows of MySQL database based on newline - php

Question

The HTML code is below:
<div class="form-data">
<form method="POST" action="test_upload_file.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
ID:<br>
<input type="text" name="id"><br>
Quote:<br>
<textarea rows="4" cols="30" name="text-file"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</div>
The corresponding php code is below:
<?php
//connect database
$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","androidtest");
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$quote_id = $_POST['id'];
$text = $_POST['text-file'];
//insert data
$sql = "INSERT INTO quotes (quote_id, quote) VALUES ('$quote_id', '$text')";
//store in the table
$insert = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
if ($insert) {
echo "Success.";
} else {
echo "Error.";
}
//close mysql connection
mysql_close($conn);
//won't resubmit the form
header("Location: " . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}
?>
I want to post multiple sentences separated by break in textarea. They should be stored in different rows in MySQL database.
For eg, if i put an id of 2 and post a text having multiple sentences separated by break or newline, then it should store in the database like this:
quote_id quote
2 line 1
2 line 2
2 line 3

Answer 1

Try following code, it may help you. I am not sure the textarea next line seperated by '\n'. Please make sure that
//connect database
$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","androidtest");
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$quote_id = $_POST['id'];
$get_file = $_POST['text-file'];
$textArray = explode("\n", $get_file);
foreach($textArray as $key=>$value) {
//insert data
$sql = "INSERT INTO quotes (quote_id, quote) VALUES ('$quote_id', '$value')";
//store in the table
$insert = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
if ($insert) {
echo "Success.";
} else {
echo "Error.";
}
}
//close mysql connection
mysql_close($conn);
//won't resubmit the form
header("Location: " . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}