Formatting lost when extracting data from table

[Jeremy Ayres]

When the text is entered into a textarea field it is formatted with paragraphs. However this is lost when extracting the data.

Solution proposed elsewhere is that I use addslashes() on the way in, and then stripslashes() on the way out.

Well I'm not sure how to do that, but does anyone else have any ideas. This must be a common issue.

On the way in:
if (empty($_POST['report'])) {
$errors[] = 'Please enter a match report before submitting the match report.';
}else{
$report = addslashes ($_POST['report']);
}

On the way out:
$report = stripslashes($_REQUEST['report']);

Cheers.