Textarea content to file

I've been searching for this answer and I just can't get my head wrapped around some the posts that I have read.

I have a textarea with this text:

aaaa
bbbb
cccc
dddd


But when I write this data to a file it writes out like this:
aaaabbbbccccdddd

I've tried doing this but it doesn't work:

$php_string0 = str_replace("<br>","\n", $php_filedata);


Thanks for any help...!!!

Hi there.

I don't know if it is for any help, but this is the script I'm using to post data from a form to a .txt file:

<?php
$saving = $_REQUEST['saving'];
if ($saving == 1){
$data = $_POST['data'];
$file = "auto_content/news.txt";

$fp = fopen($file, "w") or die("Couldn't open $file for writing!");
fwrite($fp, $data) or die("Couldn't write values to file!");

fclose($fp);
echo "Saved to $file successfully!";

}
?>
<form name="add_news" method="post" action="add_news.php?saving=1" >
<textarea name="data">
</textarea>


<input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>


Btw, wrong forum.

But when I write this data to a file it writes out like this:
aaaabbbbccccdddd
Are you viewing the data directly from the file?

Are you viewing the data directly from the file?

Yes...

Yes...
this is not because you replace \r\n with ''?
see that post:

http://www.codingforums.com/showpost.php?p=785875&postcount=4

the part about replacing with spaces not ''.

best regards

Yes...
You could use nl2br() (http://php.net/nl2br) function to retain the line breaks while displaying the content on a page.

You could use nl2br() (http://php.net/nl2br) function to retain the line breaks while displaying the content on a page.
this will not work because is no newlines in that file.

best regards