The right/best way to deal with newlines

[bertvandepoel]

I'm pretty new at Mustache, so I might just have misunderstood, but it seems quite challenging to deal with user supplied text containing newlines.

I was somewhat surprised to find that Mustache by default performs html encoding/escaping, but not nl2br. I then thought I would simply pass my string as nl2br, but obviously that will result in the
s getting escaped themselves. Of course I could use {{{var}}} but then I lose my added security. I then looked into filters but found that $m->addHelper('nl2br', function($value) { return nl2br($value); } ); with {{var | nl2br}} would still result in escaped
. Finally I found and adapted #173 and that worked.

Now my main question is whether using $m->addHelper('nl2br', function($text, $mustache) { return nl2br($mustache->render($text)); } ); with {{#nl2br}}{{var}}{{/nl2br}} is indeed the best, cleanest and most correct option.

I was also wondering, whether the answer is that that is the best option or not, if such a case shouldn't be mentioned in the wiki documentation. I looked around quite a bit specifically for this newline situation, since I presumed most mustache.php users would come across it, before moving on to trying to write a filter myself.