Validating Line Breaks In A Textarea
Well I stared writing all my eregi() validation today. Everything works fine except for the textarea validate for a business description. I allow the business to have multiple l lines in their description. I can't seem to get it to work.
Basically I am just validating it to make sure no one can type in javascript or other code and have the server run it. Am I being to paranoid ? If not, how in the heck do you validate line breaks?
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