Newlines and carriage returns in a ZF2 form - why does zf2 edit the value I enter into a textfield

Question

&I have been trying to insert a formatted entry into a text area using ZF2 and need line breaks. The consensus in blogs appears to be to use html entities to insert carriage returns and new lines.

I found a great explanation how to do this here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8627926/1325365

This solution works really well when copied and pasted.

However when I use this solution in a ZF2 form the framework appears to alter what appears for instance I have the following code:

$this->add(array(
        'name' => 'content',
        'attributes' => array(
            'type'  => 'textarea',
            'class' => 'wide',
            'id'    => 'content',
            'value' => 'This is my statement one.
This is my statement2'
        ),
        'options' => array(
            'label' => 'Content:',
        ),
    ));

The critical code has been changed when I view source. ZF2 has changed this to "
".

The changes to prevent XXS means the critical code displays literally.

Any suggestions how I change this behavior? One option is to insert the text using javascript, but this seems to be a round about route.

Answer 1

For a new line you can use this

'value' =>  'This is my statement one.' . PHP_EOL . 'This is my statement2'